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Treatment, The
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Treatment, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 54 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.6 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Chris Eigeman, Ian Holm, Famke Janssen, Blair Brown, Stephanie March, Stephen Lang, Roger Rees, and Harris Yulin

Based on Daniel Menaker's novel, The Treatment captures all of the wit and mystery of Jake Singer's epic journey through the realms of psychoanalysis and mature love in contemporary New York City. (New Yorker Films)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Daniel Saul Housman
Oren Rudavsky
Daniel Menaker (novel)
 
DIRECTED BY: Oren Rudavsky  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: May 4, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 86 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

Best Made in New York Narrative Feature, 2006 Tribeca Film Festival

What The Critics Said

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80
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
John Zorn's ethnically tinged score is effectively minimalist without succumbing to Philip Glass-style monotony, and Harris Yulin is effective as the hero's semi-estranged father.
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75
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Janssen is an intense screen presence. Too often she's stuck playing humorless towering antagonists. Here, happily, she's allowed to be a real person.
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75
TV Guide Ken Fox
The film is a pleasant breeze that refreshes, mostly because it's a rare, thoughtful comedy clearly intended for grown-ups.
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70
Los Angeles Times John Anderson
Odd, funny film.
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67
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The filmmaking is rudimentary in The Treatment, Oren Rudavsky's adaptation of Daniel Menaker's novel, but the feeling for the patient-and-shrink dynamic is authentic.
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60
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Best of all is Holm, who is consistently hilarious as the sarcastic shrink from hell.
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60
Variety Ronnie Scheib
This offbeat charmer succumbs to the same airless artificiality that has claimed many recent efforts in the genre.
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60
Village Voice J. Hoberman
Short, sweet, and hardly ever cloying, The Treatment is largely dependent for its success on the quality of its performances--most surprisingly, Eigeman's.
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50
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The Treatment fails to do anything interesting with Jake.
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50
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
A feather-light comedy about losing emotional baggage and finding love in upper Manhattan.
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50
Washington Post Desson Thomson
The Treatment gets this year's Rip van Winkle award.
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50
The New Yorker Anthony Lane
A slight and rueful affair, intermittently funny.
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40
The New York Times Manohla Dargis
A movie with its heart and head in the right place. Too bad its aesthetic sensibilities and technical coordinates are not as well situated.
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25
New York Post Kyle Smith
A wan effort at "Annie Hall"-style comedy, has about as much Manhattan sophistication as a gas station in Chippewa Falls, Wis.
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