Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302469127 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6302469120 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: July 18, 1995 Running Time: 125 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 07, 1992 Sales Rank: 20976
Amazon.com: This film, which again pairs Richard Gere and Kim Basinger (who starred in 1986's No Mercy), offers up elements of classic noir: a hapless man becomes intimately involved with a beautiful blonde who may or may not be who or what she appears to be. Dedicated psychiatrist Isaac Barr (Gere) reluctantly, and then more obsessively, becomes involved with Heather Evans (Basinger), the sister of his patient, Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman). Evans is unhappily married to a gangster (appropriately played by a muscular and menacing Eric Roberts in a trademark role). Gere and Basinger make a credible, if dangerous couple, and Thurman delivers a subtle, understated performance and demonstrates her range and potential.
The thriller is appropriately shot in gorgeous San Francisco, where the literal and figurative curving and hilly roads wind throughout. Credit legendary art director Dean Tavoularis for some amazing sets and scenes, notably the elegantly cavernous restaurant where Evans and her husband have a fateful dinner.
This film is, in a way, glossy director Phil Joanou's Hitchcockian tribute--as a climactic lighthouse scene best demonstrates. Final Analysis doesn't offer an intimate look at its characters, but a beautifully stylized one, moody and gloomy. The intricate plot experiments with the device of "pathological intoxication," in which the subject completely loses control after drinking alcohol. And this doesn't mean a conventional ugly drunk; it means a frightening psychotic. Good and evil, hope and despair, beauty and repulsion are often juxtaposed in the film's complex world. --N.F. Mendoza
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Rating: - Final Analysis Review
This is an entertaining crime drama with good performance by Kim Basinger and fine score by George Fenton.
Rating: - Some promising elements but sinks under character and story flaws
This movie has some promising elements. There is a premeditated murder plot with some intricacy, twists, and atmosphere. Kim Basinger does a good job playing a beautiful mystery woman with a troubled past ... Read More
Rating: - would give 3 1/2 stars
I would have given this movie 3 1/2 stars but I won't! I won't because there are absolutely NO extras on this DVD. U don't even have the optoin to a special featres menu! Only Start Movie, Jump to a Scene, ... Read More
Rating: - Final Viewing
"Final Analysis" is a silly love story/psychiatrist movie/court room drama that attempts to shovel us as many twist and turns as it can, only to fall more and more into the stupidity category. That doesn't ... Read More
Rating: - about the movie final analysis.......
I bought the code 1 of final analysis from Singapore video shop...hee hee and watch have watched it. The story is about two sister whom one of them is a killer and the other is a non killer where the killer ... Read More
- Some promising elements but sinks under character and story flaws
- about the movie final analysis.......