Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

waitandhope I'm watching this right now and wow what a mess. It's total nonsense first off the therapy they're using, if that's supposed to be psychoanalysis I'm a hermit crab. I've known psychoanalysts and understand their methods, surely they'd cringe seeing this garbage. As far as story it's bland as heck and boring, you want it over the moment it begins. Nothing redeeming here pure absurdity.

tommorg Between the stilted family trauma given as back story and the spoiled brats in Richard Widmark's rat pack, it's no wonder that the shrinks sling drugs at these whiners today. Perhaps this form of psychotherapy (considered the top drawer treatment of the era) should be resurrected, maybe the 'family unit' scenario is called for in this world of today where innocence has been totally lost. Now that neurosis (at least) is accepted in our society, the problems of these people seem mildly absurd. Perhaps it's a farce and I was just too dense to get it. Interesting dynamic between the shrink and his wife: in 2014 she'd get lawyered up and take him for everything he's worth. Bacall is sultry and beautiful as always. It's amazing that she could do a movie like this, as Bogart, if he wasn't already deceased, had to be very very ill.

edwagreen Very disappointing film with Charles Boyer terribly miscast as a therapist in an institution who has lost his self-respect.We know that there are debates regarding how much autonomy patients should have in these places. The main thrust of the film is about hanging up draperies. I haven't heard that term since the woman portraying Mamie Eisenhower in the fabulous "Backstairs at The White House" correcting the maid for using the term drapes instead of draperies.Richard Widmark, as the other therapist, is good here but the material, excuse the pun, does him in as well in a poor script. Gloria Grahame, as his frustrated, neglected wife, is also good.The film does show that both therapists need help for their own problems. The real star here is Lillian Gish, as the neglected, devoted worker trying her very best to assert herself. Gish portrays an anxious spinster who is really unable to cope.This is certainly not "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

MarieGabrielle A rather curious film directed by Vincent Minelli, who always was a perfectionist with his sets and actors,I am confounded as to what his inference with the drapes as metaphor;at the end patient John Kerr uses them as a blanket to get a good nights sleep.Lauren Bacall,always an interesting presence,is a young widow and psychiatrist working at an elite institution (I assume a take on the Karl Menninger Institute in Topeka Kansas).Psychotherapy was at the height of its popularity in this era, it was almost "de rigor" for creative wealthy people to enter an elite institution,even when often there was very little wrong with them,other than needing a dose of real life.Richard Widmark as the clinic director is quite interesting, even as his marriage to Gloria Grahame is falling apart and he becomes interested in Bacall.The drapes, and who will re-design them for the library is the primary theme here, strangely.Widmark remarks to the clinic patients that they are attempting to run a cooperative society,and this is clearly difficult.However it is difficult not because of the patients,but the doctors and their drama.Overall an interesting curiosity,I infer that Minelli was making a commentary on the overwhelming popularity of psychoanalysis in Hollywood, at the time.8/10.