Final Analysis
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| Directed by | Phil Joanou |
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| Screenplay by | Wesley Strick |
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| Music by | George Fenton |
| Cinematography | Jordan Cronenweth |
| Edited by | Thom Noble |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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124 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $28.6 million |
Final Analysis is a 1992 American neo-noir drama directed by Phil Joanou and written by Wesley Strick. It stars Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts, and Keith David. The executive producers were Gere and Maggie Wilde.
The neo-noir style of Final Analysis imitates Hitchcockian thrillers like Vertigo.
Isaac Barr (Richard Gere) is a top-notch, San Francisco-based Freudian psychiatrist, who has Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman) on the patient's couch. He is treating her for frightening and horrific childhood memories, which include images of her drunken father and his death in a fire for which she wasn't blamed.
One night, Heather Evans (Kim Basinger) enters Barr's office and says that she is Diana's sister. She asks Barr for information about her sister's case. It is implied, as part of the treatment, that Isaac speak to Heather to find out more about her sister's past experiences and determine if she might provide information that Diana has forgotten.
Not long after, Heather seduces Isaac, and a steamy affair follows. However, there is a problem—Heather is married to Jimmy Evans (Eric Roberts), a violent and wealthy Greek gangster. She also has a way of embarrassing Jimmy in public by taking a sip of wine and then flipping into an attack of "pathological intoxication", which can end with the restaurant in shambles.
It turns out that Heather is trying to involve unsuspecting Isaac in a plan to murder Jimmy and collect a $4 million double indemnity life insurance policy on him. She is also using Diana as bait and wants Isaac framed for the murder.
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