***MAJOR SPOILERS*** Treating a very disturbed young woman Diana Baylor, Uma Thruman, who seemed to have developed suicidal tendencies over the abusive treatment that she received by her father when she was a little girl. San Francisco psychiatrist Dr. Isaac Barr, Richard Gere, gets a surprise visit one afternoon by Diana's older sister Heather Evens, who's such a knockout that it causes Issac to forget his client's, Diana , illness.
Heather, very concerned about her kid sister, tells Issac a number of things that Diana kept from him which included the very disturbing fact that she was constantly raped by her father. That may well have been responsible for his death by Diana setting him on fire when he was laying dead drunk and out cold in bed one evening. The movie then takes a sudden turn with Issac falling in love with Heather and, as if he completely forgot about her disturbed sister, stating to treat her for psychological problems as if she were his patient not his lover!
It's during Issac' treatment, and affair, with Heather that he learns that she's married to a top San Francisco mobster named jimmy Evens, Eric Roberts. Jimmy is constantly abusing her and Issac fears that he'll eventually murder Heather for not giving Jimmy the almost slave-like attention that he demands. When you finally see Jimmy in the movie you begin to realize that it's Heather, not Jimmy, who's the abusive one. Not that Jimmy isn't a cold-blooded hoodlum he never once in the brief time you see him as much as lifts his hand on the very neurotic Heather. It' Jimmy who's the one that's very concerned about Heather's drinking that causes her to black out and go wacko making a complete spectacle of herself in public; as we later see in a scene with Jimmy and Heather having dinner in a local restaurant.
It's not that long after were introduced to Jimmy that we see what a real flake Heather is. We discover that it's not Diana that needs the professional psychiatric help that Iassc can provide but her sister Heather! Not only is Heather trying to involve the Innocent and unsuspecting Issac in a plan to murder Jimmy, and collect a 4 million insurance policy on him, but have Iassc framed for it and! Even more sinister Heather is using her sister Diana as bait to do it!
Overly complicated psychological thriller that's saved from total ruin by the acting of it's top stars Richard Gere Uma Thruman and the very sexy, and hot as a steam engine, Kim Bassinger. There's three great scenes in the movie "Final Analysis" that are more then worth the price of admission.****SPOILER**** The first being where Heather is being questioned, with Isaac present, in the mental institution that she's committed. Thinking those asking the questions are members of the District Attorney's office and having Diana show up with the "evidence" ,that Heather planted, to frame Isaac for her husbands murder. Heather ends up getting the surprise of her life, when for some reason Diana didn't deliver the goods, where she completely changes her demeanor and loses it. Going from a calm and totally in control of the situation individual into a dangerously wild and crazy lunatic in just a matter of seconds! That scene in itself should have earned Kim Basinger an Academy Award nomination for best actress.
There's an even better scene in the movie later on when Heather, changing places with Diana in prison, escapes and tries to get in touch with Det. Higgens, Keith David, in order to give him the murder weapon that she used to kill her husbands with Isaac's fingerprints on it. Only to have Issac grab the murder weapon, a steel dumbbell, before Higgins got it making it totally unless as evidence. The best part of the movie is saved for last with both Iassc and Det. Higgins, who finally realized that it was Heather not Iassc who murdered Jimmy, having it out with the the now totally crazed Heather on top of a dangerously damaged lighthouse, off the Golden Gate Bridge, during a violent and murderous downpour. That scene was as good,if not better, as anything you would see in an Alfred Hitchcock psychological thriller.
Heather, very concerned about her kid sister, tells Issac a number of things that Diana kept from him which included the very disturbing fact that she was constantly raped by her father. That may well have been responsible for his death by Diana setting him on fire when he was laying dead drunk and out cold in bed one evening. The movie then takes a sudden turn with Issac falling in love with Heather and, as if he completely forgot about her disturbed sister, stating to treat her for psychological problems as if she were his patient not his lover!
It's during Issac' treatment, and affair, with Heather that he learns that she's married to a top San Francisco mobster named jimmy Evens, Eric Roberts. Jimmy is constantly abusing her and Issac fears that he'll eventually murder Heather for not giving Jimmy the almost slave-like attention that he demands. When you finally see Jimmy in the movie you begin to realize that it's Heather, not Jimmy, who's the abusive one. Not that Jimmy isn't a cold-blooded hoodlum he never once in the brief time you see him as much as lifts his hand on the very neurotic Heather. It' Jimmy who's the one that's very concerned about Heather's drinking that causes her to black out and go wacko making a complete spectacle of herself in public; as we later see in a scene with Jimmy and Heather having dinner in a local restaurant.
It's not that long after were introduced to Jimmy that we see what a real flake Heather is. We discover that it's not Diana that needs the professional psychiatric help that Iassc can provide but her sister Heather! Not only is Heather trying to involve the Innocent and unsuspecting Issac in a plan to murder Jimmy, and collect a 4 million insurance policy on him, but have Iassc framed for it and! Even more sinister Heather is using her sister Diana as bait to do it!
Overly complicated psychological thriller that's saved from total ruin by the acting of it's top stars Richard Gere Uma Thruman and the very sexy, and hot as a steam engine, Kim Bassinger. There's three great scenes in the movie "Final Analysis" that are more then worth the price of admission.****SPOILER**** The first being where Heather is being questioned, with Isaac present, in the mental institution that she's committed. Thinking those asking the questions are members of the District Attorney's office and having Diana show up with the "evidence" ,that Heather planted, to frame Isaac for her husbands murder. Heather ends up getting the surprise of her life, when for some reason Diana didn't deliver the goods, where she completely changes her demeanor and loses it. Going from a calm and totally in control of the situation individual into a dangerously wild and crazy lunatic in just a matter of seconds! That scene in itself should have earned Kim Basinger an Academy Award nomination for best actress.
There's an even better scene in the movie later on when Heather, changing places with Diana in prison, escapes and tries to get in touch with Det. Higgens, Keith David, in order to give him the murder weapon that she used to kill her husbands with Isaac's fingerprints on it. Only to have Issac grab the murder weapon, a steel dumbbell, before Higgins got it making it totally unless as evidence. The best part of the movie is saved for last with both Iassc and Det. Higgins, who finally realized that it was Heather not Iassc who murdered Jimmy, having it out with the the now totally crazed Heather on top of a dangerously damaged lighthouse, off the Golden Gate Bridge, during a violent and murderous downpour. That scene was as good,if not better, as anything you would see in an Alfred Hitchcock psychological thriller.