Dr. T & The Women

"The man knows how to handle a speculum," says a patient admiringly of Dr. Sullivan Travis (Richard Gere), gynecologist to the pampered ladies of Dallas. He has a lot to handle in this derisive comedy. His wife (Farrah Fawcett) goes nuts and naked in a mall fountain; his clients, to a woman, are idle and self-absorbed. To Altman and screenwriter Anne Rapp, women's problems are the result of their having way too much time on their manicured hands. The film's blithe misogyny soon becomes wearying; it refuses to see women as more than the sum of their private parts.