rondine This movie is not as bad as it seems. First of all, I'm a big John Savage fan, so I guess you could say I watched it for his performance alone, which was very good. Also (and I think most men would agree) Kim Catrall is easy on the eyes. Plus, being a big Sex & the City fan, I wanted to see her in a movie. Malcom McDowell is a nice touch as the doctor.The story as you may have already gathered, is about a psychiatrist who has a drinking problem due to the tragic death of his first wife in a car accident. When he attempts to take his own life, his best friend & lawyer - as well as his current but estranged wife, decide to commit him to a psychiatric institute where they use controversial techniques.Without giving too much away, the movie attempts to kinda explore the hidden feelings & subconscious memories that we all hide in an effort to run from ourselves and our troubles. Is this the best movie on that topic I've ever seen? No, is it worthy of viewing? Yes. I would even be tempted to watch it again to see what I may have missed. There are some definitely subtleties here.Really a 6.5 out of 10, but hey, I wanted to help the overall rating! Don't take this movie too seriously, it's a thriller with a twist at the end. Just enjoy the ride.

sol1218 (There are Spoilers) Living with the tragic death of his first wife Wendy, Candice Daly, psychiatrist Dr. Ian Lazzare, John Savage, can't keep her out of his mind even after re-marrying a woman who's an exact replica of Wendy Teresa also Candice Daly with her blond hair colored black.Becoming a hopeless alcoholic Dr. Lazarre drinking become so acute that Teresa leaves him and that leads to Dr. Lazarre attempting to kill himself. Committed to the Blackhurst Instatute by Teresa and Dr. Lazarre's friend and personal lawyer John McNamra, Eric Pierpoint, Dr. Lazarre is put on drugs and kept from getting any sleep to shock him out of his drinking problems. But as we, and Dr. Lazare, also see his treatment has nothing at all to do with curing him but experimenting with his mind, or what's left of it, to see what make him tick with the experiments being conducted by the head of the institute the weird Dr. Vernon Requist, Malcolm McDowell.You have trouble with understanding the movie "Where Truth Lies" right from the start with Wendy's accident that later in the film turns out to be her murder. There's also this convict was treated by Dr. Lazarr who seemed to have later been executed a Jonas Keller, Denis Forest, who keeps popping up in the movie as if he were Dr. Lazarre's conscience or alter-ego. You at first think that Keller was the real reason for Wendy's death but it turns out that he had nothing to do with it so why is he made to be so important in the film not only in regard to Wendy's murder but to Dr. Lazarre himself?At the Blackhurst Institute were at first given the impression that Dr. Renquist and his head nurse Racquel Cambers, Kim Cattrall, are not what they seem to be. It's even indicted that Nurse Chambers is a junkie that Dr. Renquist experimented with like he's doing with Dr. Lzarre. But as the movie moves to it's surprising conclusion it obvious that all that information we get from the movie makers of "Where truth Lies" are red herrings to throw us off what's really going on and why Dr. Lazarre was committed in the institute in the first place.The big surprise in the movie is not that surprising at all since we get a good idea to who's behind Dr. Lazarre's interment and what the reasons are for it is. Which Dr. Lazarre himself realizes but after it's too late for him to stop the person from murdering his second wife Teresa like he did his first wife Wendy. Very depressing ending where the killer gets poor Dr. Lazarre implicated in Wendy's murder only after he himself is killed by an outraged Dr. Lazarre, who earlier escaped from the Blackhurst institute, only to end up being committed for life to a mental hospital for the criminally insane. Passable thriller with John Savage doing his best as a man being driven over the edge in order to cure him of an mental illness that he only got from being institutionalized to cure it when he didn't have it in the first place.

fargo1996 I watched this movie on a whim and boy was it lousy. The dialogue was flat, the characters were plastic, the plot was implausible and disjointed. This was a total waste of time. Kim Catrall, and Malcolm McDowell must be kicking themselves for doing this movie. Some of the dream sequences were interesting, but John Savage, the main character psychoanalyst, is a very weak leading man. I wonder if he ever was in a good movie. Even the murderer villain looks more like Fabio than a twisted killer. The hospital guard was laughable. This lummox obviously never acted before, nor would I ever believe that he could pass any exam needed to work in a mental hospital.

BennyM How did they get John Savage and Malcolm McDowell to be a part of this mess?A poor excuse for a story, lousy editing... well, basically, lousy everything. Usually, when I see a movie, no matter how bad, there's always one or two moments, or one or two elements, that make it worth the while. Not so here. There's absolutely nothing new in this movie, and all those familiar elements are put together badly - or should I say, not put together, rather jumbled into one big soulless mess.Don't waste your time. It's bad, but not bad enough, I'm afraid, to make even me laugh. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.