Final Analysis (1992)

	Directed by: Phil Joanou	COUNTRY USA GENRE Erotic thriller/Neo-noir NORWEGIAN TITLE Djevelsk spill RUNNING TIME 124 minutes
	Produced by: Charles Roven Tony Thomas Paul Junger Witt
	Written by: Wesley Strick

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Dr. Isaac Barr	Richard Gere	½
Heather Evans	Kim Basinger	½
Diana Baylor	Uma Thurman
Jimmy Evans	Eric Roberts
Detective Huggins	Keith David	½
Mike O'Brien	Paul Guilfoyle	½
Dr. Alan Lowenthal	Robert Harper	-
Pepe Carrero	Agustin Rodriguez	-

Review

This erotic thriller starts out promisingly and rather seductively, with Richard Gere finding the right tone in the lead as a psychiatrist who tries to manoeuvre between treating a young woman with a history of sexual abuse (Uma Thurman) on the one hand, and starting an affair with her sultry and mysterious older sister (Kim Basinger) on the other. The pitfalls should probably have been visible from the start, both for Gere and us viewers, but for about half of the film's running time, director Phil Joanou (State of Grace) almost succeeds in becoming the Hitchcock copycat he sets out to be. And not until the overlong and silly finale does it all fall apart – literally.