Dr. T & the Women
Short description
Dr. Sullivan Travis is a wealthy Dallas gynecologist whose practice is always full and whose patients adore him. Known as Dr. T, he is attentive and charming with the women in his care, and his home life revolves around women as well: his wife, his two daughters, his sister-in-law and the staff at his office. That balance begins to collapse as problems pile up on every side, at work and at home alike, and the doctor retreats into golf and into the company of a woman outside his usual circle.
Robert Altman directed the film, the eighteenth of the twenty-one features he made, arriving between Cookie's Fortune and Gosford Park. Anne Rapp wrote the screenplay, and Altman produced with James McLindon. Richard Gere plays the title role, heading a cast that includes Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long and Tara Reid, with sixty-three credited performers in all. The production cost about 23 million dollars and took in roughly the same amount worldwide, so it did not turn a profit in cinemas.
Audiences were unenthusiastic: on IMDb the film holds 4.7 out of 10 from about 21,000 votes, and on TMDB 4.9 out of 10 from 361 votes. Critics rated it 6.5 out of 10 across 106 reviews, clearly higher than the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The dialogue in the long opening scene was not written in the script and was the result of improvisation. It took 5 days to film.
- Richard Gere admitted that he didn't understand the ending of the film until it was explained to him by audience members at a preview screening.
- To make it easier for Farrah Fawcett to film the “nudity” scene in the fountain, director Robert Altman (1925-2006) demanded that everyone be removed from the set except himself, the cinematographer, and the person responsible for sound recording. To everyone's surprise, the actress stated that she was not embarrassed at all and refused to film without the rest of the crew. Everyone returned, she performed the scene, and it all ended with long applause in her honor.
- The first in Hollywood history detailed and frank depiction of a child’s birth.
- When Gira's son Homer was born in 2000, he took the opportunity to visit the maternity ward to better understand what was happening there.
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