Synopsis
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
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Cast
- Kevin SpaceyHenry Carter
- Mark WebberJeremy
- Keke PalmerJemma
- Saffron BurrowsKate
- Jack HustonShamus
- Pell JamesDaisy
- Dallas RobertsPatrick
- Laura RamseyKeira
- Jesse PlemonsJesus
- Robert LoggiaDr. Robert Carter
Recommendations
- 63
USA Today
Grief and suicide seem unlikely subjects for a comedy. But Shrink tries gamely to mine edgy humor from the darkest places. Sometimes it works. Other times, its Hollywood-centric focus feels like a re-heated cinemash of "The Wackness," "Crash" and "The Player." - 60
Variety
The film may be too inside-baseball, with strained sympathy and contrived emotions. - 60
Salon
Shrink offers a roster of wonderfully eccentric characterizations, shoehorned into a dramatic structure that's just a little too formulaic. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
You do wish Pate and writer Thomas Moffett had gone for more wit given the outlandishness of the melodrama since it would be more fun to laugh at this than take it seriously. - 50
The New York Times
These characters are mostly too sketchy and their connections too contrived for Shrink to jell as an incisive ensemble piece. - 50
New York Post
Starts promisingly, but Jonas Pate directs his fine cast straight into a swamp of schmaltz as every loose thread of plot gets patly resolved. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
It wants to be "Good Will Hunting" set in the land of "Entourage," but its bummed-out touchy-feeliness is every bit as concocted as its overly jaded showbiz corruption. - 42
The A.V. Club
Shrink is exactly like virtually all his (Spacey) post-"American Beauty" vehicles: flashy, phony, nakedly melodramatic, and full of big actorly moments disconnected from real life.
