lovesick

Director: marshall brickman

Actor: dudley moore,elizabeth mcgovern,alec guinness,christine baranski

Data Published: Fri Feb 18 1983

Genres: Comedy,Fantasy,Romance

Key Words: advice,love,patient,psychiatrist,one word title

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085873/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovesick_(1983_film)

Description: Lovesick is a movie starring Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, and Alec Guinness. A psychiatrist, who falls in love with a patient, is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it.

Plot: Psychoanalyst Saul Benjamin takes on a patient temporarily as a favor to a colleague friend, Otto Jaffe, who is infatuated with her. After her doctor dies, Chloe Allen comes to see Dr. Benjamin and immediately he is smitten with her, too. The doctor-patient relationship is violated by Dr. Benjamin's romantic impulses toward Chloe and by his intense jealousy of anyone who comes near her, including Ted Caruso, an arrogant Broadway actor with whom she has become involved. The psychiatrist's wife also is carrying on an affair with Jac Applezweig, an artist. The ghost of Dr. Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology, visits Dr. Benjamin from time to time to dispense warnings and wisdom. Benjamin's work begins to suffer as he abandons patients like Mrs. Mondragon, finding her tedious, and treats the paranoia of another, Marvin Zuckerman, by designing a peculiar handmade hat for him to wear. A board of inquiry calls in Dr. Benjamin to consider revoking his license. In the end, he admits his feelings to Chloe and concludes that he prefers true love to treating the sick.