Wilderness

Wilderness (1996) This is actually an edited down version of a three part British TV mini-series. The DVD is in full screen format and has only 2.0 Dolby stereo sound. However, that being said, this is at least a fairly interesting movie about deep psychological problems or werewolves, your choice. It concerns a 30 something woman, working in a library, who has not been doing well with the opposite sex. It turns out; she believes herself to be a werewolf and cannot have lasting relationships. She finally meets a new shrink and a new boyfriend that change her life. The psychiatry profession does not come off lightly scathed in this one. Michael Kitchen does an excellent job of playing a self important doctor who finds a patient that will make him world renown if he can just come up with a cure, but off the deep end of rationality he quickly goes. There is quite a different type of lycanthropy on exhibit here. Those expecting a throat ripping time will be a tad disappointed, but give the producers an A for effort in the nudity department. Overall, an interesting effort and some quality desiccant British humor to boot. The movie is rated R for: considerable female nudity, pre-marital sex, marital sex, pre-divorce sex, cheating hearts, violence to topiary, and for self absorbed psychiatrists.