The Treatment (2006)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Oren Rudavsky

Writers:

Daniel Saul Housman (writer)
Daniel Menaker (novel)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

A comedy about life, love... and escaping your shrink.

Plot:

Jake Singer is at loose ends in NYC, and neck deep in psychoanalysis with the outrageous Dr. Morales when he meets the enigmatic and beautiful widow Allegra Marshall. |

Plot Keywords:

Reference To Aristotle | Reference To John Milton | Reference To Cicero | Based On Novel

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Chris Eigeman	...	Jake Singer
Stephanie March	...	Julia
Ian Holm	...	Dr. Ernesto Morales
Famke Janssen	...	Allegra Marshall
Peter Vack	...	Ted
Griffin Newman	...	Scott
Josh Caras	...	Phil (as Josh Barclay Caras)
Matt Stadelmann	...	Chris
Lindsay Johnson	...	Walter Cooper
Roger Rees	...	Leighton Proctor
Stephen Lang	...	Coach Galgano
Thomas Bubka	...	Other Coach
Maddie Corman	...	Patty Mcpherson
Stephen Lee Anderson	...	Bill Daniels
Tyrone Mitchell Henderson	...	Gerry Leonard

Runtime:

USA:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:12 | USA:Not Rated | Finland:K-11

Filming Locations:

New York, USA

Company:

Shrinkwrap

Trivia:

John Zorn who composed the score for the film won a MacArthur Foundation, the "Genius" award for his music in 2006.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the last school lesson before summer, when the camera is panning over the students in the classroom. We can clearly see a student reading his book upside-down.

Quotes:

Dr. Ernesto Morales: "I suppose, maybe, I guess." Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles lest someone cut them off.

Movie Connections:

References X-Men (2000)

Warm film with clever dialogue. A smart romantic comedy.

"The Treatment" is a very well acted romantic comedy that relies on clever dialogue rather than outlandish set-pieces to deliver the laughs.

The story is simple enough - Teacher Jake befriends the young widowed mother of a student and then falls for her. Things are complicated by their different social standings, the fact that Allegra is still grieving for her recently dead husband, and Jake's visits to his psychoanalyst.

The lead actors are all excellent, but Ian Holm's character gets all the best lines in the movie as a nasty psychoanalyst trying to 'help' Jake Singer (Chris Eigeman) stop undermining his own relationships.

Famke Janssen is very, very good in this movie and her performance was my favourite of the piece. Considering the other works I've seen her in I was blown away to discover she was such a good actress.

This is a warm, funny movie that I could happily watch again.