A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.
Many combinations were suggested, my own preference being Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand, who made such a lovely couple in “The Prince of Tides,” but in the end the lucky winners were Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson.
Cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt, whose keen sense of the South earned him an Oscar nomination for 1991's "The Prince of Tides," makes the most of it, giving even the dirt roads and decaying frame houses a kind of gauzy beauty usually reserved for the plantation-styled manses.
Betsy Sharkey, www.latimes.com•Los Angeles Times•Aug 10, 2011
Her directing effort, "The Prince of Tides" was a great film about loss, emotional wounds, and relationships until Babs single-handedly ruined it with her loud, whining psychologist steam-rolling through the movie.