Shrink

• Comedy
• Drama

A darkly comedic descent into professional and personal unraveling, *Shrink* portrays a renowned Los Angeles psychiatrist’s increasingly erratic behavior following the loss of his wife. Unlike typical portrayals of grief, this film plunges into the protagonist’s self-destructive coping mechanisms – copious marijuana use and flagrant disregard for professional boundaries – creating a surprisingly honest and discomforting examination of one man’s incapacitating despair. The narrative isn’t concerned with tidy resolutions, instead offering a raw, often unsettling, portrait of a healer becoming irrevocably broken, blurring the lines between therapist and patient as his own self-treatment spirals out of control. It's a uniquely cynical take on the healing profession, exploring themes of isolation and the limitations of psychological intervention through a lens of morbid humor and genuine sadness.