Title: Jay Carr's 'The Wackness' review

" I Oscar winning actor Ben Kingsley plays a shrink. Who trades therapy for drugs in the movie the blackness his star is Josh -- the popular TV cable show Drake and Josh."

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" But he's not much not so much laid off -- I think that he's got some great lines and Ben Kingsley really. There's one it unheralded performance of the year -- very loosely wrapped shrink. And if you if you had some -- just needed to go to shrink this is exactly the guy would not so I don't they wouldn't want to go I have got a he's got kind of is off the wall sort of Harvey Keitel urban quality takes place in 1994 New York this is just before Giuliani kind of crunched down everything. And everything it's kind of loosely wrapped and everybody's got problems and everybody has mixed stuff especially the shrinking closes but it in his way actually what it tells us -- played by judge -- Actually makes a weird kind of sense. And this is this the -- drug -- deliver seeing basically a his family is in big trouble they've lost all their money as college the money they save for college tuition is vanishing fast. And this kid -- selling them -- very you know one of these. Quite ice cream wagon did you push around the streets and out of idolize him he's got to -- a -- clients take a college you know and help the parents out -- I've. Paper it rents -- it'll be evicted so everybody in the film really kind of sympathetic but it's a very kind of loosely wrapped. What used to be called -- hit movie and Ben Kingsley is wonderful and it's a lot of fun now this is the Sundance darling right. -- I suppose it was a law I have to tell you you know you you after awhile now. Before most dreaded -- whose film going -- com. I hit at Sundance not talking I'm not going and -- not much -- so I don't know that it's really good thing anymore to be heralded you know there isn't it at Sundance but this is it was -- at Sundance and at the lovely film well words into a -- is that it Connie does have a little bit about how or certainly I wrote a lot of a lot of fun a lot of this wonderful winging it -- quality of the very drug -- tricky kind of comedy. With just about serious senate and but he could motivations on track. Ben Kingsley has such a range -- me she goes from. You know kind of military man to hit piece psychiatrist and what one ranging after dawn DNS. Guy -- with -- against -- Leone if you went through this sort of alcoholic hit man I know yeah yeah -- that's certainly done a tremendous range it eight and pleasure watching that ABC. These balls are kind of written for him do you think he's talking these no I think he's got a very good sense of you know what roles to pick. He varies the -- keeps in different you know it's. It's a funny thing people think about it Norton duck no reason why they should. Good actors and not always good at picking scripts themselves. Which is why you -- good actors you know and we do. Why did he or she wanted what do they do this -- part of or they think that -- he makes very few. Bad or you know. This informed choices."