Dr. T & The Women
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Actor: Farrah Fawcett, Helen Hunt, Laura Dern, Richard Gere, Shelley LongBrand: GERE,RICHARD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
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DVD Review: Mr T and the Women?
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie starred Richard Gere as Dr T, a Dallas Texas based gynecologist with a way with women -- until they all get to be too much for him. It would have been way better if it had been called Mr T and the women, and if Mr T had played the character he created for the "A" Team, B.A. Baracus, as a Dallas, Texas based gynecologist. When Dr T's wife, Kate (Farrah Fawcett), took off her clothes and swam in the shopping mall fountain, he would have just looked at her and said "Shut up, fool. You ain't no fish." As the women of Dallas made plans for Dr T's daughter's wedding, it seemed like they were taking over the world. You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a dysfunctional blonde pre menstrual or post menopausal woman. Mr T would have summed up the situation and said something pithy and insightful, like "I pity the fool who goes out tryin' a' take over da world, then runs home cryin' to her momma!"
Or what if the Dr T had been Dr. Terwilliker, from The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., who had an insane plan to enslave 500 boys in his Piano Academy and force them to practice 24/7 on his magnificent piano? With a script by Dr. Seuss, and starring Hans Conried as Dr. Terwilliker! Take Dr. Terwilliker, and make him a gynecologist instead of a piano teacher, set the whole thing in Texas. Can't you just imagine Dr. T. singing "I want my lavender spats!" out on the Texas range? That would have been Atomic. VERY atomic!
Instead of that magnificent spectacle we are forced to settle for second Gere and Altman's workaday mise-en-scène. At first Gere is a doctor who thinks women are the best thing since sliced bread, but Dr T grows to despise them as their needs, imagined ailments, and, as Dr Terwilliker would say, their "idiotic cock-eyed flum-dummery" overwhelms him.
This film is chock full of beautiful and talented women, like Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Kate Hudson, Tara Reid and Liv Tyler, but it doesn't really like women. The film is a mysoginist. Only Helen Hunt escapes its hellish fury, as a golf pro who toys with Dr T, but then tosses him aside, just like a man would do. Dr T says he is attracted to her because she wasn't like all the other women. If she was a woman who acted like a man, that would explain a lot, Dr Freud.
Was the scene of Kate Hudson practicing her routine with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders merely gratuitous, or was it integral to the plot? I would have to go with merely gratuitous. Or how about the scene where Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler make out? Once again, gratuitous. But as long as we're being gratuitous... Liv Tyler isn't the only one who wished they would have used more tongue and "gone for it."
The ending seems not only preposterous, but is also patronizing. I won't give it away, but suffice it to say that Gere's Dr T still thinks he is god's gift to women, but in reality women have been having babies without any help (apart from a small initial investment) from men for thousands of years.
Hannibal: B.A., there's an old saying - "The best defense is a good offense."
B.A. Baracus: You got that wrong, man. A good offense is the best defense.
Hannibal: Okay, have it your way.
One Night at McCool's (2001) Liv Tyler was Jewel Valentine
Almost Famous (2000) Kate Hudson was Penny Lane
The Big Lebowski (1998) Tara Reid was Bunny Lebowski
Wild At Heart (1990) Laura Dern was Lula Fortune
Fool for Love (1985) (directed by Robert Altman)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985) Helen Hunt was Lynne Stone
Night Shift (1982) Shelley Long was Belinda Keaton
American Gigolo (1980) Richard Gere was Julian
Shampoo (1975) Lee Grant was Felicia Carp
Myra Breckinridge (1970) Farrah Fawcett was Mary Ann Pringle
[repeated line]
Hannibal: I love it when a plan comes together!
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Description of Dr. T & The Women
Dr. Sullivan Travis, a successful Dallas gynecologist, finds his life disrupted by the women in his life; his wife suffers a nervous breakdown, his eldest daughter plans to marry despite being a lesbian, his youngest daughter is a conspiracy freak, his seGenre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 21-OCT-2003
Media Type: DVD
Loose-limbed and casual even for a Robert Altman movie, Dr. T & the Women has a sly, offhanded wit that makes up for its ramshackle structure. Richard Gere's eponymous gynecologist seems the model of success: his office is packed daily with the cream of Dallas's society matrons clamoring for an appointment, his home life is blessed with loving wife Farrah Fawcett and daughters Tara Reid and Kate Hudson, and when he needs a break from the estrogen congestion there are always weekends to be spent with his trio of hunting buddies. But on a trip to the mall to shop for Hudson's upcoming nuptials, Fawcett strips naked and leaps about in a waterfall. Her subsequent incarceration in a mental hospital (she's diagnosed with the fictional "Hestia complex," suffering from receiving too much affection) along with the ongoing preparations for the wedding barely make a dent in Gere's charming, compassionate demeanor. Then his golf course hires a new female pro who's everything the other women in his life are not--independent, self-confident, Helen Hunt--and Dr. T finds himself with yet another woman to love. Though the minor characters are mostly nasty little caricatures, the film is not the bitter misogynistic rant its detractors claim it is; the problems in Dr. T's life are placed squarely on his own inability to see that women don't need his genteel protection, and Gere perfectly captures this sweet yet condescending blind spot. --Bruce Reid
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