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A Fine Madness

A Fine Madness

  • Status: Released
  • 29-06-1966
  • Runtime: 107 min
  • Score: 4.9
  • Vote count: 17

A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.

Sean Connery

Samson Shillitoe

Joanne Woodward

Rhoda Shillitoe

Jean Seberg

Lydia West

Colleen Dewhurst

Dr. Vera Kropotkin

Jackie Coogan

Mr. Fitzgerald

Patrick O'Neal

Dr. Oliver West

Clive Revill

Dr. Menken

Werner Peters

Dr. Freddie Vorbeck

John Fiedler

Daniel K. Papp

Kay Medford

Mrs. Fish

Zohra Lampert

Evelyn Tupperman

Sorrell Booke

Leonard Tupperman

Sue Ane Langdon

Miss Walnicki

Bibi Osterwald

Mrs. Fitzgerald

Mabel Albertson

Chairwoman

Renée Taylor

Myrna

Al Bain

Bibman

Calvin Brown

Boxer in Gym

Lovyss Bradley

Clubwoman

Joyce Perry

Receptionist

James Millhollin

Rollie Butter

Nora Denney

Waitress

Roland La Starza

Angie

Wuchak

_**Kooky farce about an obnoxious nonconformist and the incompetence of mental health quacks**_ An abusive creative type in Manhattan (Sean Connery) has writer’s block and is compelled by his waitress wife (Joanne Woodward) to visit a psychiatrist (Patrick O'Neal), but the bore’s dallyings with the quack’s wife (Jean Seberg) worsen the situation. Meanwhile Clive Revill is on hand as a mad lobotomist. Believe it or not, “A Fine Madness” (1966) has nothing to do with secret agent shenanigans, but is rather a zany Manhattan farce with a theme that would be done more effectively in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” (1975). Nevertheless, it’s amusing seeing Connery play a cranky, boozing, womanizing poet who cleans carpets for a living. Woodward is also entertaining as his not-gonna-take-it wife. Speaking of which, the flick scores pretty well on the feminine front with the likes of Seberg and Sue Ane Langdon (Miss Walnicki). Colleen Dewhurst even shows up. The film’s also worth checking out just to travel back in time to Manhattan of the mid-60s. The movie runs 1 hour, 44 minutes and was shot on the East Side of Manhattan, plus Long Island. GRADE: B-