As the title may suggest, this is just another film that follows around the very depressing lives of L.A. residents.
Add 2 suicides to the mix, an OCD manager and a pregnant secretary, and you've got 'Shrink'.
The problem here is that what we've got is not a genre but the same movie being made over and over again.
Here is the formula:
Depressed L.A. residents as protagonists who feel like utter failures because that is exactly what they are
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A couple of tragedies to explain the depression (how does that make following these characters around any more interesting?)
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Flirtation with the idea of character bonding and development, but falling short.
We get it. It's reality. But we don't go to the movies for reality now, do we?
Add 2 suicides to the mix, an OCD manager and a pregnant secretary, and you've got 'Shrink'.
The problem here is that what we've got is not a genre but the same movie being made over and over again.
Here is the formula:
Depressed L.A. residents as protagonists who feel like utter failures because that is exactly what they are
+
A couple of tragedies to explain the depression (how does that make following these characters around any more interesting?)
+
Flirtation with the idea of character bonding and development, but falling short.
We get it. It's reality. But we don't go to the movies for reality now, do we?