Amazon.com: A Couch in New York: Juliette Binoche, William Hurt, Stephanie Buttle, Barbara Garrick, Paul Guilfoyle (II), Richard Jenkins, Kent Broadhurst, Matthew Burton, Henry Bean, Bernard Breuse, Adam LeFevre, Boris Leskin, Tiffany Frazer, Wendy Way, Jerry Dean, David S. Lomax, Jean-Baptiste Filleau, Lysako Karunga, Blaise Chakir, Bruce Katzman, Chantal Akerman: Movies & TV

A Couch in New York (1996)

Starring: Juliette Binoche, William Hurt Director: Chantal Akerman Rating

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Actors: Juliette Binoche, William Hurt, Stephanie Buttle, Barbara Garrick, Paul Guilfoyle (II)
Directors: Chantal Akerman
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English, French
Subtitles: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating:
Studio: Fox Lorber
DVD Release Date: August 14, 2000
Run Time: 104 minutes

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ASIN: B00004TBFU
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #39,885 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Amazon.com
When Dr. Henry Harriston (William Hurt) makes the uncharacteristically spontaneous decision to swap apartments with someone in Paris, he opens his life up to the possibility of new things. The woman who answers his ad is Beatrice Saulnier (Juliette Binoche), a dancer looking for respite from an onslaught of lovesick admirers. In New York, Beatrice inadvertently finds herself analyzing Henry's patients through a series of misunderstandings on their part that she is his replacement during his vacation. With help from her friend-secretary Anne (Stephanie Buttle), she continues Henry's practice and brings light and happiness to his patients, until Henry himself--who has returned early to New York--shows up and, his curiosity piqued by what seems to be going on, gains access to Beatrice as John Wire, a supposed patient of himself. What follows, and how it ends, makes for perhaps the most charming romantic comedy to come along in ages, and rivals the great Shop Around the Corner, Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 film. Binoche is impossibly charming, Hurt creates a wondrously believable suppressed psychoanalyst reborn through love, and Chantal Akerman as director pulls it all together with deft skill. --James McGrath

Product Description
A successful New York psychoanalyst nearing a nervous breakdown and his French neighbor make an overnight decision to swap apartments. Neither one knows the other but find themselves deeply involved in their counterpart's social settings, and the people in their lives are caught in an amusing state of mistaken identity and confusion by the sudden change of enviroments.