Shrink

Physician, Drug Thyself: Psychiatrist in Hollywood

Like smog settling over Los Angeles, a creeping sense of anomie haunts the Hollywood power players and parasites sidling nervously through “Shrink,” a portrait of a disenchanted therapist to the stars and his clientele. Directed by Jonas Pate from a screenplay by Thomas Moffett, based on a story by Henry Rearden, this dissection of a soul-sick community of self-medicating actors, writers and agents would like to think of itself as a contemporary “Play It as It Lays,” only kinder and gentler. “Shrink” doesn’t peer into the abyss as fixedly as “Play It as It Lays,” the 1970 Joan Didion novel or its screen adaptation by the director Frank Perry (for which Ms. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4195 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 24 luglio 2009