Bad Timing

– Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Tho..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.00 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 3 Minutes
Release Year:
1980
Bad Timing (1980)

Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.

Release Date:

25 Oct 1980

Language:

English, German, Czech, French

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Nicolas Roeg

Writer:

Yale Udoff (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott

Plot:

The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective suspects foul play on the part of her lover, an American psychology professor. As doctors try to save her life, the detective interrogates the professor, and through flashbacks we see the events leading up to the woman's overdose; her stormy and intensely sexual relationship with the professor, her heavy drinking and numerous affairs, and her estrangement from her Czech husband. A darkly erotic study of several rather unsympathetic characters.

Awards:

3 wins.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%