Final Analysis

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Final Analysis

R,

1992,

2h 4m,

Mystery & Thriller

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57%

28 Reviews

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36%

5,000+ Ratings

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57%

Tomatometer

28 Reviews

36%

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5,000+ Ratings

Isaac Barr (Richard Gere) is a psychologist treating Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman), but when he talks with her sister, Heather (Kim Basinger), about their troubled childhood, he finds his attentions shifting away from his patient. Heather comes on to him, leading to a secret affair that is complicated by Heather's pathologically jealous gangster husband, Jimmy (Eric Roberts). But the complications don't end there, as Heather may or may not need some serious psychological help herself.

David Ansen

Newsweek

Apr 13, 2022

Final Analysis is gold-plated pulp.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Mar 26, 2009

Tantalizing double-crosses mount right up to the eerie final scene.

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

May 20, 2003

2/4

The movie attempts to top each of its revelations with still another until reason bends and interest flags.

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Bob Shelton

Birmingham Post

Dec 19, 2025

A psychological thriller that is almost a catalogue of Hitchcockian suspense and devices. Strangely, they work in this complex, first-rate drama.

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

Dec 19, 2025

This is sub-Vertigo stuff, sacrificing everything to serpentine plot twists and the tone is relentlessly misogynous.

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Madeleine Harmsworth

Sunday Mirror (UK)

Dec 18, 2025

3/5

A taut psychological thriller, Final Analysis cleverly uses psychiatry as its background.

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Han L

Aug 20, 2018

i don't know why this second-best thriller of the 90's takes this place: excellent cast and acting, realistic plot.

Anakin S

Dec 7, 2017

Now for the most part they both stared in No Mercy which I have not seen but Final Analysis is the one I've seen. This is actually going to be like Vertigo which I didn't know but it gets old quickly. Richard Gere plays Issac Barr, a doctor psychiatrist who helps Heather's sister, Diana who is having nightmares in the past about frightening and horrific childhood memories about his father. Heather is married to Jimmy Evans who is a violent and wealthy Greek gangster and she's suffering from pathological intoxication. Now this is where I go from here. Final Analysis is an Alfred Hitchcockian unfocused neo-noir psychological thriller with unfocused performences, the courtroom scenes are kind of rushed and a dull story that rips off Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. I actually don't mind myself analysing a flower shaped like a penis. Aside from that, it's not much. It has it's moments but the film itself is dull but it was all right.

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Phil Joanou

Director

Richard Gere

Dr. Isaac Barr

Kim Basinger

Heather Evans

Uma Thurman

Diana Baylor

Eric Roberts

Jimmy Evans

Paul Guilfoyle

Mike O'Brien

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Synopsis

Isaac Barr (Richard Gere) is a psychologist treating Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman), but when he talks with her sister, Heather (Kim Basinger), about their troubled childhood, he finds his attentions shifting away from his patient. Heather comes on to him, leading to a secret affair that is complicated by Heather's pathologically jealous gangster husband, Jimmy (Eric Roberts). But the complications don't end there, as Heather may or may not need some serious psychological help herself.

Director: Phil Joanou
Producer: Charles Roven, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas
Screenwriter: Wesley Strick
Production Co: Warner Bros.
Rating: R
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 10, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $27.0M
Runtime: 2h 4m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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