Basic Psych

Basic Pscych is a tightly scripted drama written by a physician. Benefiting from his professional experience and insights, Jim Tucker introduces the viewer to several dilemmas facing medical care providers when they are sought out by disturbed and frankly scarey patients. Is the patient being truthful? Is he a danger to the doctor and his family or to others? Is it proper to continue providing care or is it ethical to abandon the patient?

The intricate plot and several subplots challenge the viewer to attend to the subtle clues seeded within this story of a psychiatrist entangled with an apparently dangerous patient. The resolution of the plot is surprising, but as one reconsiders the totality of the movie, the ending should be no surprise.

Your close attention will be well rewarded as you watch Basic Psych.

If you love "edge of your seat" thrillers, you will love Basic Psych as much as I did! This movie realistically explores the dynamics of the relationship between a psychiatrist and his patient while keeping you guessing through numerous plot twists and turns. The acting is superb and script is so tight that you are constantly engaged. All the threads are neatly tied together in a dramatic ending that leaves you breathless. Even after you know how this movie ends, it's one of those movies you can watch over and over again to pick up little clues you might have missed! One of the best thrillers I've seen in years.

A movie that will capture your attention from the get go and will keep you fully engaged to the end. Lots of twists and turns and a surprise ending, which few among us watching, guessed correctly!!

It is a psychological thriller, set in the world of a psychiatrist and his patient. Well directed and acted, this feels like this could be happening to people you know or to people you could encounter in your daily life.

Written by Jim Tucker and directed by Melissa Martin with strong performances by Michael Cerevis, Cotter Smith and David Conrad, this movie is one of the better movies I have seen this year.

A masterful Whodunit! The plot develops from the opening scene with the characters intertwining and creating an intense, unexpected drama. With expertly crafted suspense, a psychiatrist and his patient create a palpable tension that never lets up. The screenplay is tightly woven, the acting is first rate, and accomplished actor Michael Cerveris delivers another standout performance. With many twists and turns in the final minutes, this unforeseen outcome is not revealed until the last climactic scene. An excellent movie! See it a second time to catch all of the nuances that you might have missed.

Here is a movie that gets right to it! As a longtime songwriter, I have learned a phrase that works " don't bore us get to the chorus"

As a long time movie fanatic, I assure you, "basic psych" put you on the edge of your seat early, and keeps you there.

Great acting, great dialogue, and multiple plots, along with a "cool" twist makes this movie a must see.

Director Melissa Martin, and writer Jim Tucker certainly worked well together to bring Jim 's script alive on the big screen. There are wonderful camera angles, and shots, and the lightness and darkness of the film works perfectly with a storyline, which is based around a mix of happiness, anger, distress, and suspense.

This film was shot in Pittsburgh using numerous locations which made it great fun to watch for a long time "Burgh" dweller.

Writer Jim Tucker brings us a great plot, characters, and dialog and delivers a thought provoking, suspenseful, thriller, that I enjoyed very much.

There is a great cast in this film, all delivering powerful and believable parts. I was drawn in, on board and buying it immediately.

Again, I consider myself a bit of a movie connoisseur. Movies that I "love" I can watch many many times over changing my visual gaze from foreground to background inside of each scene

I enjoy thinking outside the box of where the writer might have been trying to take us.

I also enjoy noticing strange camera angles, interesting shots, cuts and edits.

This film was full of all of the above

My only complaint and possible shortness as far as this review goes is I've only seen the movie once

Again, as a reviewer with a voracious appetite for movies and the art of "movie making" I could watch this over and over again........so could you.

I give it two thumbs up, and the standing ovation!!

Now, " when can I see it again?"