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ComedyDrama

Bad Therapy

- Trouble by the hour

Married couple Bob and Susan Howard decide to see a marriage counselor named Judy Small, who appears trustworthy but harbors dark and conflicted impulses.

Release Date : 2020-04-17

Language :EnglishSpanish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : VarientTeitler Film

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Michaela Watkins

Character Name : Judy Small

Original Name : Michaela Watkins

Gender : Female

Alicia Silverstone

Character Name : Susan Howard

Original Name : Alicia Silverstone

Gender : Female

Rob Corddry

Character Name : Bob Howard

Original Name : Rob Corddry

Gender : Male

Anna Pniowsky

Character Name : Louise

Original Name : Anna Pniowsky

Gender : Female

David Paymer

Character Name : Dr. Edward Kingsley

Original Name : David Paymer

Gender : Male

Aisha Tyler

Character Name : Roxy

Original Name : Aisha Tyler

Gender : Female

Sarah Shahi

Character Name : Annabelle

Original Name : Sarah Shahi

Gender : Female

Haley Joel Osment

Character Name : Reed

Original Name : Haley Joel Osment

Gender : Male

Dichen Lachman

Character Name : Stern

Original Name : Dichen Lachman

Gender : Female

John Ross Bowie

Character Name : Nick

Original Name : John Ross Bowie

Gender : Male

Ginger Gonzaga

Character Name : Miranda

Original Name : Ginger Gonzaga

Gender : Female

Sunkrish Bala

Character Name : Walter

Original Name : Sunkrish Bala

Gender : Male

Erik Griffin

Character Name : Principal Sykes

Original Name : Erik Griffin

Gender : Male

Paris Bravo

Character Name : Zooey

Original Name : Paris Bravo

Gender : Female

Angela Oh

Character Name : Dr. Smithson

Original Name : Angela Oh

Gender : Female

Marcelo Tubert

Character Name : Dr. John

Original Name : Marcelo Tubert

Gender : Male

Jack Axelrod

Character Name : Dr. Cherbenko

Original Name : Jack Axelrod

Gender : Male

Brett Hoyle

Character Name : James

Original Name : Brett Hoyle

Gender : Male

Flula Borg

Character Name : Serge

Original Name : Flula Borg

Gender : Male

Craig Robert Young

Character Name : Roger

Original Name : Craig Robert Young

Gender : Male

Gavin Leatherwood

Character Name : Spit

Original Name : Gavin Leatherwood

Gender : Male

Chido Nwokocha

Character Name : Policeman

Original Name : Chido Nwokocha

Gender : Male

Reviews

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2022-09-03

Bob Howard (Rob Corddry) is married to Susan (Alicia Silverstone). He wants to have a baby; she's not so sure, and rightly so – a pregnancy at Silverstone's 43 years of age might be dangerous, not to mention that by the time the child turns 21, Corddry will be 70. It slowly dawned on me that Corddry and Silverstone are, on paper, playing characters much younger than themselves. Bob and Susan attend couples therapy with Dr. Judy Small (Michaela Watkins), and Susan says she married her late first husband and had daughter Louisa (Anna Pniowsky) in college. This would put her in her in the early-to-mid-30s range. She also says that Bob was 39 when they got married, and Bob says they've been married for three years, so he would be 42 instead of Corddry's 49. I've loved Alicia ever since Clueless and the Aerosmith videos, but neither she nor Corddry are young enough or good enough actors to get us to suspend our disbelief about their characters' ages. This isn't the biggest leap of faith Bad Therapy hopes we'll make, though; on top of that he expects us to believe that Corddry is, in the words of Judy Small (for some reason everyone keeps calling her by her full name name; this the movie's idea of a running gag), "an extremely attractive man" – to the point that three beautiful women such as Silverstone, Watkins, and Sarah Shahi succumb to his charms. Who knows? Maybe he has the kavorka. If the movie were the least bit interesting or entertaining, its protagonists' ages would matter little. Unfortunately, Bad Therapy forces us to focus on such petty details to keep ourselves from thinking about its horrible characters – especially Bob, whose implicit and explicit sleaziness is the movie's ruin. Here's a man who would have happily cheated on his wife twice, and only stops short of the actual deed because he's interrupted both times – and yet we're supposed to feel good for Susan when she reconciles with him. The most inexplicable and unforgivable aspect of the movie, however, is when Susan suggests that Bob has started seeing 13-year-old Louise in a not-so-fatherly way. Even if the film had been on the right track before – and it never was – this is a blow from which it could never recover. The notion is abandoned almost as soon as it is introduced – which makes it even more disconcerting –, but the stench of pedophilia lingers in the air and, unless you're Todd Solondz, that is not the mood you want your comedy to evoke (incidentally, Pniowsky is the only one who survives this disaster with her dignity intact).