Jimmy P. (2014)
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Critic Consensus: Jimmy P. has interesting ideas and talented stars, but director Arnaud Desplechin can't seem to figure out how to bring them together.
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Cast
as Jimmy Picard
as Georges Devereux
as Madeleine
as Dr. Karl Menninger
as Dr. Holt
as Doll
as Gayle
as Jane
as Jack
as Catatonic Indian
as Allan
as Dr. Jokl
as Miss Wharton
as Radiologist
as Neurologist
as Dr. Braatoy
as Biologist
as Opthamologist
as Officer
as Eric McMurphy
as Desmond
as Bartender
as Closed Ward Nurse
as Alma
as Master Sergeant
as Sergeant
as Avy Spring, Sexy Nurse
as Jimmy Child
as Older Sister
as Gayle 19 Years Old
as Judge
as Jimmy's Lawyer
as Mary-Lou 11 Years Old
as School Friend
as Mary-Lou 14 Years Old
as Janitor
as Teller
as Patient
as Puppeteer 1
as Puppeteer 2
as Stunt Nurse 2
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Critic Reviews for Jimmy P.
All Critics (33) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (16)
This intelligent movie becomes a gentle reproof of prejudice and ignorance, and I wish I could find some excitement in it.
Honestly, it's hard to see why "Jimmy P." was ever made.
Avoiding the usual therapy-drama story beats, Desplechin has made a densely satisfying drama about Freud, racism, and sympathy in its largest sense.
A fascinating cross-cultural experiment that eventually runs itself into the ground.
In warming quite a lot to Jimmy P, it's possible that I've gravitated to what Desplechin's long-term admirers might regard as the wrong film.
The pain and sadness of Picard's life are perversely relegated to another time and place, one the film can only visit from the distance of his recollections. By the end, [Arnaud] Desplechin makes him known thoroughly, but not vividly.
Audience Reviews for Jimmy P.
Slightly mentally non-decolonized. Good Film! A worthwhile film but a little odd insofar as it under emphasizes the ethnocultural forces in the characters in favor of a "special friendship" (in a universalized way) despite the fact that it is the decultured nature of American psychiatry which was at the root of doctors' inability to help Jimmy in the first place. Also couldn't stand the way a couple of actors who think that acting means being as anxious and/or intense as possible in every scene. Jimmy P is enlightening about the psychic damage that happens when cultural and ethnic peoples are punished for who they are and made to ape other cultures to become accepted. A Native American Veteran suffering from a series of psychological issues develops a deeply powerful friendship with his progressive French psychoanalyst as they discover and attempt to understand the source of his illness.
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