Truly Dreadful Film

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Fresh and Exciting

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This film is about a psychiatrist who, after his wife's death and an entry into the world of drugs, begins to question his ability to help his patients, despite his fame, success and the various famous clients he has among the Hollywood elite. The only solution to his doubts is the confrontation with Jemma, a middle-class girl who also suffers from an unresolved mourning and is the only person able to see things from another perspective.This movie might have been good, but it's just plain messy. The pace is too slow and the characters are monotonous, uninteresting and poorly developed, with no connection between them and the audience. The film has a strong cast, full of sounding names like Kevin Spacey and Robin Williams, but there is no good material to give them and Jonas Pate's direction is absolutely incompetent. For example, Robin Williams never plays a character. He is limited to being himself saying decorated lines. With the exception of these two actors, who stood out to me because I know them, the rest of the cast merged into an amorphous, almost anonymous crowd. I had a hard time noticing who is who, to the point of losing my interest in the film. The task of watching it has become inglorious.What does it matter if the sets and costumes are good, if cinematography fulfills her role well, if the soundtrack proved to be competent? If I, as a public, can not understand the film, if I do not feel attracted to the story and everything loses interest because it's boring, the movie is not good for me.

Shrink (2009)We know the joke that is no joke at all--psychiatrists are the ones who need the help.The rest of the cast needs help, too, but Kevin Spacey is a perfectly dour, complex, troubled, and rather smart shrink. And if his performance is nuanced and powerful in an undramatic way, the large supporting cast is exceptional, too. Exceptional. There might be issues with the neat ending, or with some of the motivations here and there, but there is so much going on within this clearly deceptive world of Hollywood insiders and outsiders, almost anything goes.This is director Jonas Pate's first feature, after many t.v. episodes and some music video. That he coordinated such an involved plot, and made it look good, is impressive. That he got such an array of actors to be their idiosyncratic selves without too much strain and affectation is also impressive. It might help that I expected an ordinary film and found it extraordinary. It has an echo in many ways of "Short Cuts" and in many ways equals it, though that 1993 film had nothing but the highest expectations (Robert Altman directing, based on Raymond Carver stories). "Shrink" is refreshing in how it approaches Hollywood peripherally--not through a producer's office and some actors looking to make it, but through this psychiatrist who treats Hollywood's elite. There might be a sense, especially at first, that there is no clear direction to the plot. But that's a matter of having so many pieces, and they haven't started fitting together. I found each subplot engaging enough to lead me along quite happily right away. And so when it got more integrated, and the stakes of the characters were raised, the whole just got better and better.I'm not sure how this slipped by everyone's attention. Don't let it slip yours.

I love Kevin Spacey and believe he is more talented than just an actor. He has done his job for this movie and I wouldn't finish watching the movie if it wasn't for him. This movie has no script that pulls the attention of the viewer. It's just a compressed version of an ordinary TV series. This girl assigned for that shrink by the school, shrinks patient is a movie producer and his friend is a broke writer and they all find themselves interconnected throughout the movie.. What is this crap? Please be more creative, I would give a D grade if this script was handed in to me for screen writing class. Please do not shoot movies just because the right actors are hired. Read the script and get objective criticism first..

Shrink was a painful movie to watch. I am not a big fan of these Hollywood movies and there is no way I would want to live in that city. Kevin Spacy delivered the goods, don't get me wrong. However - there were far too many scenes where he was over acting and partying. What was the deal with Robin Williams basically being himself? This was a poor man's Magnolia. I could not suggest seeing this movie unless you want to watch countless scenes of the Hollywood scene. I really wanted to punch that agent in the face. He had a ton of money yet was so mean to everybody. Talk about somebody with bad OCD. That one scene where he almost had a heart attack when he caught that one guy going to the bathroom on the steps was out of the blue. Also, the guy who dealt weed to Kevin Spacy gave me the creeps. I want my two hours back.