MR.JONES (1993)

There's one inspired comic moment in this provocative, misfired attempt to romanticize mental illness. Richard Gere, as a brilliant and sensitive manic-depressive (the kind of lust-for-life guy who cries, ''This is not a disease -- it's who I am!''), is moved to such ecstasy by a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that he marches on stage and begins conducting the orchestra himself. The trouble is, it soon becomes impossible to separate the character's exhibitionistic instability from Gere's coy showboating. As the psychiatrist who oversees his stay in an institution and then -- naturally -- falls in love with him, Lena Olin is stuck in that old, unplayable role: the repressed shrink who seems like a stooge next to her sensitive-genius patient.

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