Beyond Therapy

“Comic relief for incurable romantics.”

Prudence (Julie Hagerty) and Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) answer each other's personal ad on the urging of their psychiatrists, and the first meeting goes badly. A second date goes better, though Bruce's live-in lover Bob (Christopher Guest) has no intention of sharing him. Altman films Christopher Durang's stage comedy with its theatrical artifice left showing, the ensemble talking over one another in deadpan.