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Dr. T. and the Women

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3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 727 ratings
IMDb4.7/10.0
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005UQVN
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 727 ratings

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Nancy in Aloha, Oregon
5.0 out of 5 stars Richard Gere is awesome, as usual
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2016
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I liked this movie. Richard Gere of course is awesome, as usual. What a phenomenal actor. This is a very different movie. Has many top notch actors/actresses. The viewer instantly bonds with Dr. T., he's Mr. Perfect. He is a Gynecologist with a busy schedule, with a gorgeous home. But he has sadness in his life. His wife (Farrah Faucet) has some kind of dimentia or mental breakdown going and it breaks his heart. She even goes to an asylum to try to get healed. It's laughable how busy Dr. T's waiting room is. Women get ancy waiting, the nurses and receptionists try to hold down the fort. Sometimes family comes in to talk with him then his schedule gets really behind. This is a very caring man with a busy life, with 2 grown daughters. And one is getting married soon, so wedding plans are happening. Dr. T. meets someone at the Golf Club and they bond. It is a good movie. Lots going on and the ending was quite different. You'll love this. I recommend it. There are ups and downs, unexpected things. The only thing that kind of bothered me was how noisy the waiting room got with everyone talking at once and they had background music. It was a little distracting. Shelley Long plays the head nurse and she does a good job.
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Pat Fifield - Author & Playwright
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Character Portrayals by Gere, Fawcett and Long
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2016
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This was a movie filled with excellent acting from this star-studded cast. The story line was funny and poignant. Richard Gere gave an outstanding performance that was filled with humor, self-deprecation, and thought provoking insight. Shelly Long and Farrah Fawcett gave very warm and poignant portrayals of women trying to cope with their situations in the best way they knew. Laura Dern was fabulous in all her southern boozy splendor. Dona Granata did a visually luscious job with the costumes. The ending, however, took me out of the moment and became sort of surreal. It didn't fit the rest of the story line. If the ending had been different, this movie probably would have made it even bigger because there was some top-of-the-line acting here. Am I glad I watched it? Absolutely. Would I watch it again? Probably not.
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C. C. Black
3.0 out of 5 stars Ain't It Something?
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2020
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Robert Altman's films are as distinctive as Hitchcock's or Scorsese's or Bergman's: each has such a distinguishable style that nobody else could have made them. Among them Altman's are the most generically varied. In general, Hitchcock gives you suspense; Scorsese, the underworld; Bergman, despair. With an Altman movie, you can never be certain what you'll get, but you'll know that only Altman could have made it.

"Dr. T and the Women" has all the director's hallmarks: a particular setting and mood (here, Dallas glitz), the teeming, ensemble cast, the roaming camera work (the first, long, uninterrupted shot of this movie took five days to choreograph to his satisfaction), overlapping dialogue, thin storyline, spot-on performances, quirkiness, and women. Only Bergman made more movies with women at their centers than Altman. Reportedly, most actresses would drop anything to make a movie with him. Here, one of them drops every stitch of her clothing in a shopping mall fountain. It's not exhibitionism. Her character is having a nervous breakdown, just outside Godiva Chocolates.

Once the stereotype was broken—Gere's Dr. T. is no rogue but a decent yet flawed human being, a professional who cares about his patients—and the story began to slide off the rails, I decided to watch this movie as though it were a funny, unpredictable dream. One darn thing after another happens to Gere's character; just as he is only beginning to sort it out, something else knocks him down. He's Daffy Duck in Chuck Jones's "Duck Amuck" (1953): some unseen hand keeps wrapping weird scenery around him and painting anvils that fall on his head. Those who complain that the movie makes little sense have a point—but that's the way dreams unfold. Characters exit as fast as they enter. Things happen, which lead in an absurdly twisted logic to other things happening. The last thirty minutes explode with ominousness, comedy, bittersweetness, irony, nightmare, and a truly incredible, happy ending.

It's not Altman's best; it's not his worst. It's a line drive straight down the middle. Call it 2.5 out of a possible 5.
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Arnoldo Romero
5.0 out of 5 stars A Surreal Caricature
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2016
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"Dr. T and the Women" is a surreal caricature about a prestigious gynecologist and the socialite patients he is surrounded by, as well as his all female family members, his female staff, and a professional female golfer he has an affair with. Although some could say it is a sexist movie, because the movie focuses primarily on superficial and needy female characters, his small group of male friends doesn't appear to be any better. The only character that has any sense of normalcy and depth is Dr. T. Therefore, I see the movie as a social critic of the dangers of having too much money and no meaningful touch with reality.
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Shawnald
1.0 out of 5 stars There's 130 Minutes of My Life I'll Never Get Back
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2016
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Holy cow. I know Robert Altman is some kind of national treasure, but what a steaming pile of monkey flop. Overly quirky Texas caricatures rendered by somebody who has zero understanding of Texas women. No end of "overtalking" or dialogue battles where every character talks at the same time, creating a cacophony where the viewer isn't sure which conversation is important enough to tune into.

Exhausting to watch, and I mean that in the worst way. You can't cast your way out of a bad script, but Bob sure tried to camouflage this stinker by throwing every relevant actress from the past four decades at the screen and seeing who stuck.

As it turns out? Nobody stuck. There are no redeeming characters except Dr. T himself, and he was a Neutrogena peel-thin representation of the evolved male psyche. Dr. T was the characterization of the man women THINK they want. Ironic that every woman in the movie rejected him in the end. Or not ironic.
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DR HARRY R CLARKE
3.0 out of 5 stars Good not great Altman.
Reviewed in Australia on September 28, 2019
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I enjoyed this more conventional Altman move and Richard Gere played his role well but not the most imaginative and interesting Altman movie I have seen. Worth seeing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fun to Watch
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 13, 2015
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I enjoyed the film very much. Dr T was certainly surrounded by other women and Helen Hunt was a breath of fresh air against the hullabaloo of the other women. The film was fun to watch.
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Nadie
5.0 out of 5 stars Ein Altman, den ich nicht mehr missen möchte.
Reviewed in Germany on July 25, 2015
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Immer öfter denke ich, eine gewisse Reife gehört wohl dazu, die Altmänner zu mögen. Nicht erst seit ich ein halbes Jahrhundert hinter mir habe, fällt es wesentlich leichter, auf Action und Spannung weniger Wert zu legen, als auf Dialoge und Geschichten, die das Leben vielleicht manchmal nicht ganz so interessant und überzogen erzählen würde.
Wer selbst entscheiden möchte, ob er Altman gerne sehen würde, muss wohl oder übel zur DVD/BR greifen, denn Kinos bringen nur neueste Filme, und dem öffentlich rechtliche Rundfunk fehlt dafür die nicht erforderliche Quote.
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Sly
4.0 out of 5 stars LOUFOQUE DROLE SURPRENANT
Reviewed in France on January 7, 2014
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Ce film ne plaira pas a tous ! Je ne fais pas partie de cette catégorie , ce film je l'ai trouver drôle pour les situations loufoques et en même temps surprenant je ne m'attendais pas à ça ... N'ayez pas peur d'aller voir le DOCTEUR T ....
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F&D Human-Cristo
5.0 out of 5 stars A true treasure
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 9, 2013
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In our humble opinion this is actually a great movie for the joy of acting of its brilliant cast and its frames/shoting. We enjoyed every minute, the humour and the story line.
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