Synopsis
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.
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Cast
- William H. MacyAlex
- Neve CampbellSarah
- Tracey UllmanMartha
- John RitterJosh
- Barbara BainDeidre
- Miguel SandovalDetective Larson
- Donald SutherlandMichael
- Tina LiffordDr. Leavitt
- Nicholle TomTracy
- Steven MorenoSean
Recommandations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Seeps with melancholy, old wounds, repressed anger, lust. That it is also caustically funny and heartwarming is miraculous. - 90
Washington Post
Inspired, sublime fun. - 88
Baltimore Sun
In the full-house ensemble of Henry Bromell's Panic, Neve Campbell is the wild card. - 88
Chicago Tribune
Graced by bleak, stylized direction and an insightful ending that suggests that nothing ever really ends, this first feature film by "Northern Exposure" and "Homicide" writer and producer Bromell is a promising debut. - 80
Rolling Stone
A black-comedy gem. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
From the opening lines to the epilogue (one of the film's few misfires), this taut first feature from TV producer and novelist Henry Bromell sustains a taut mood of unease and isolation, and the ensemble performances (TV starlet Campbell's included) have the qualities of the highest-caliber stage work. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
A defiantly offbeat and accomplished piece with a dream ensemble acting out one man's nightmare, it deserves not to fall through the cracks. - 70
Los Angeles Times
A lot of this is quite well done, but Bromell has a tendency to have too schematic an aesthetic agenda for his story: treating film noir like kabuki is not necessarily the best way to go, no matter how beautifully you do it.
