This film is about a psychiatrist who, after his wife's death and an entry into the world of drugs, begins to question his ability to help his patients, despite his fame, success and the various famous clients he has among the Hollywood elite. The only solution to his doubts is the confrontation with Jemma, a middle-class girl who also suffers from an unresolved mourning and is the only person able to see things from another perspective.This movie might have been good, but it's just plain messy. The pace is too slow and the characters are monotonous, uninteresting and poorly developed, with no connection between them and the audience. The film has a strong cast, full of sounding names like Kevin Spacey and Robin Williams, but there is no good material to give them and Jonas Pate's direction is absolutely incompetent. For example, Robin Williams never plays a character. He is limited to being himself saying decorated lines. With the exception of these two actors, who stood out to me because I know them, the rest of the cast merged into an amorphous, almost anonymous crowd. I had a hard time noticing who is who, to the point of losing my interest in the film. The task of watching it has become inglorious.What does it matter if the sets and costumes are good, if cinematography fulfills her role well, if the soundtrack proved to be competent? If I, as a public, can not understand the film, if I do not feel attracted to the story and everything loses interest because it's boring, the movie is not good for me.

Hollywood shrink Dr. Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey) is a weed-smoking drunk at home since his wife's suicide. His clients are self-obsessed with various problem in the entertainment industry. His psychiatrist father (Robert Loggia) refers troubled student Jemma (Keke Palmer) to him. Jesus (Jesse Plemons) is his drug dealer.All these Hollywood stereotypes with their problems are really tiresome. The only interesting characters are Spacey and Palmer but only when they're together. They are an electric duo. Everything else is a horribly boring drag. I couldn't care less about his patients or his family or his friends or his dealer or him talking to anybody other than Palmer. So I only found this movie compelling for about fifteen minutes in total.

There are some different kind of movies who touches your heart, this is one of them.While I was watching it I see some pieces of myself out there. Im interesting in psychology too, so if u like psychology this is a "must see movie" for you.On the other hand Kevin Spacey is great as always he do. Cast is perfect. You can easily watch it without bored till the end even if you have no info about psychology stuff cos its nearly real life.You gonna see how a beautiful young girl turns on a star and the other things. There is no nudity so you can watch it with all your family and this movie comes with cool ideas for young people especially having trouble with school.If you are in depressive condition or just not feel happy for a long time, maybe this movie gonna be a good choice for you.

I am calling my movie shrink! Yes, they do have that! I have just witnessed the most appalling excuse of a movie entitled "Shrink". Director Jonas Pate's movie had no uppers but plenty of downers. Kevin Spacey stars as Hollywood Psychiatrist Dr. Henry Carter who loves to smoke his shrinking marijuana joints and indulge in self-pity due to his wife's recent suicide. Dr. Carter is a psychiatrist to many Hollywood types including: movie stars, inspiring writers, and narcissistic agents. A few of those fill in the intertwined supporting story lines of the movie, which were non-therapeutic to the non-existence viewing pleasure of "Shrink". Thomas Moffett was definitely "off it" with his mind-numbing screenplay. Just 10 minutes into the movie, I wanted to enlarge my DVD remote control's shrinky mute button to get to it faster so I would not have to hear more of the "Shrink" atrocious screenplay within the numerous story lines. I cannot fathom that the multitalented Kevin Spacey would be crazy enough to be a part of this unauthentic narrative. He did what he could in his starring role as Dr. Carter, but I would have counseled Mr. Spacey to skip his acting session with this stinker of a movie. The supporting acting was in need of some thespian therapy and the only act it called for was an Actor Baker Act. However, I must commend Dallas Roberts for his amusing performance as the self-indulged Hollywood agent Patrick. Patrick's session with Dr. Carter discussing his obsessive compulsive disorder was the only worthy scene of the movie. Director Jonas Pate's disorderly direction of "Shrink" was an exercise in inferiority; this Jonas Brother hit all the low notes. All of this negativity is a shame because I was psyched about the premise of "Shrink"; but after seeing the shambles of it all, it should have been institutionalized in the "scared straight to DVD" department. * Failure