Final Analysis (1992)

Director:

Phil Joanou

Writers (WGA):

Robert Berger (story) and
Wesley Strick (story) ...

Release Date:

7 February 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

A psychiatrist and two beautiful sisters playing the ultimate mind game.

Plot:

Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married (to a gangster)...

Plot Keywords:

Psychiatrist | Holding Cell | Dream Analysis | Fall From Height | Storm

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Richard Gere	...	Dr. Isaac Barr
Kim Basinger	...	Heather Evans
Uma Thurman	...	Diana Baylor
Eric Roberts	...	Jimmy Evans
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Mike O'Brien
Keith David	...	Detective Huggins
Robert Harper	...	Alan Lowenthal
Agustin Rodriguez	...	Pepe Carrero
Rita Zohar	...	Dr. Grusin
George Murdock	...	Judge Costello
Shirley Prestia	...	Dist. Atty. Kaufman
Tony Genaro	...	Hector
Katherine Cortez	...	Woman Speaker
Wood Moy	...	Dr. Lee
Corey Fischer	...	Forensic Doctor

Runtime:

124 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Iceland:16 | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | Singapore:PG (cut) | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:18 | Portugal:M/16 (video premiere) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bix Restaurant - 56 Gold Street, San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Last film of Rico Alaniz.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scene where Isaac confronts Heather in his apartment about giving Diana a gun, the position of Heather's hair changes back and forth throughout the whole scene.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Diana Baylor: [on psychiatrist's couch] I had the dream again. I'm arranging flowers, on a table, for a center piece. I decorate the flower pot with fancy paper. Feels like velvet. There are three different kinds of flowers. There are lilies, and there are... by the way, did you reach my sister?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Relentless 3 (1993)

Watch out for the secondary characters

I just watched this movie again, after having seen it twice before in 1996-97. It hasn't held up particularly well. It steals a lot from Hitchcock (the "I had the dream again" key phrase from "Rebecca", the superficial psychoanalysis from "Marnie", the setting of the climax from "Vertigo"), but Phil Joanou's direction is, for the most part, static. The two leads, Gere and Basinger, do a solid but routine job in their roles; it's the secondary characters who give this film a life of its own: Eric Roberts (an outstanding performance) as the edgy husband, Uma Thurman as the patient (whose character is the only one who remains an enigma right to the end), the detective who keeps making insinuations, Gere's colleague who gets panicky when he has to testify, etc. If nothing else, Joanou shows a talent for allowing his actors to do their stuff. (**1/2)