A group of guys decide to form their own special therapy discussion group in which they candidly discuss their many problems relating to women. Things get out of hand when said guys eventually wind up going to a fancy bordello together.
Director Pete Medak and screenwriter Leonard Michaels start this film out as some kind of sincere examination on the macho male condition complete with trenchant insights on love, sex, and regret, but as the story unfolds this movie takes a surprising and refreshing departure into an altogether eccentric and weirdly comic realm highlighted by a crazy knife throwing contest and an absolutely hysterical impromptu mock wedding.
The top male ensemble cast have a field day with their juicy roles: Roy Scheider as sleazy horndog former baseball player Cavanaugh, Harvey Keitel as the mopey Solly Berliner, David Dukes as the uptight Phillip, Frank Langella as touchy and frazzled lawyer Harold Canterbury, Treat Williams as dashing doctor Terry, Richard Jordan as flaky drunken shrink Kramer, and Craig Wasson as the wimpy Paul. Moreover, there are sturdy contributions from Stockard Channing as Kramer's angry wife Nancy, Jennifer Jason Leigh as the brash Teensy, Ann Wedgeworth as kooky ventriloquist madam Jo, Marilyn Jones as the sweet Allison, Penny Baker as the foxy Lake, and Gwen Welles as sexy redhead. One of the strangest and most unjustly maligned movies from the mid-1980's.
Director Pete Medak and screenwriter Leonard Michaels start this film out as some kind of sincere examination on the macho male condition complete with trenchant insights on love, sex, and regret, but as the story unfolds this movie takes a surprising and refreshing departure into an altogether eccentric and weirdly comic realm highlighted by a crazy knife throwing contest and an absolutely hysterical impromptu mock wedding.
The top male ensemble cast have a field day with their juicy roles: Roy Scheider as sleazy horndog former baseball player Cavanaugh, Harvey Keitel as the mopey Solly Berliner, David Dukes as the uptight Phillip, Frank Langella as touchy and frazzled lawyer Harold Canterbury, Treat Williams as dashing doctor Terry, Richard Jordan as flaky drunken shrink Kramer, and Craig Wasson as the wimpy Paul. Moreover, there are sturdy contributions from Stockard Channing as Kramer's angry wife Nancy, Jennifer Jason Leigh as the brash Teensy, Ann Wedgeworth as kooky ventriloquist madam Jo, Marilyn Jones as the sweet Allison, Penny Baker as the foxy Lake, and Gwen Welles as sexy redhead. One of the strangest and most unjustly maligned movies from the mid-1980's.