The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

United States

1988

29 Min

Color

English

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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EXEC Paul Jackson, David V. Picker

SCR Mike Armstrong, Steven Wright

CAST Steven Wright, Rowan Atkinson, Laurie Metcalf, Carrotte, Christopher Durang, Martha Gehman, Joe Grifasi, Thomas Ikeda, Dana Ivey, Peter Maloney, Michael Mantell, Bill McCutcheon, Mick Muldoon, Rochelle Oliver, David Hyde Pierce, Mike Starr, John Tillinger, Damian Young

SOUND Lee Orloff, Mathew Price

Synopsis

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings is a 1988 American short comedy film, starring and co-written by Steven Wright, which won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988.

Dennis Jennings (Steven Wright) is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional waiter and has an equally-dull girlfriend, Emma. In an attempt to release his pent-up feelings of isolation, he begins seeing a psychiatrist (Rowan Atkinson), only to discover that the doctor is somewhat less than interested in what he has to say. After finding his doctor sharing his intimate secrets with a group of fellow psychiatrists at a bar, and then finding that his girlfriend is cheating on him with the doctor, Dennis decides he has had enough. He hunts the doctor down in the woods and shoots him, ending up in jail with an equally uncaring prison shrink. —Wikipedia

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Anastasia

17Nov12

Oddly enough, this film is a forgotten prequel (or call it a companion piece) to "Frasier". David Hyde Pierce (Niles) is mastering his peppy little bromides (oh, that moustache!) and the film is literally soaked in resentment of Freudian psychology. (Freud is a poor man's Jung, Frasier would say many years later.)