Movie Description:
Jake Singer is an anxious young schoolteacher living inNew York. He is barely on speaking terms with his father,recently abandoned by hisgirlfriend, and heading for a life of compromise and mediocrity at a prestigious uptown prep school. Emotionally paralyzed, Jake embarks ona course of psychoanalysis withthe maniacal Argentine-Freudian Dr. Ernesto Morales, therapist from hell, who wields his heavily accented sarcasm likea machete. Morales` tactics areworthy of the Spanish Inquisition, and soon Jake is just trying to keep him at a distance while planning his escape. Butwhen he meets socialite widow Allegra Marshall, Jake finds himself upwardly mobile in the Manhattan of serious money and glamour. Bouncing fromMorales` couch to Allegra`s bedand back again, Jake`s whole life begins taking on the strange, unpredictable qualityof a therapy session.
