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www.boxoffice.com - : A Merchant Ivory production made in 2001 and till now unreleased stateside for what, quickly and sadly, become obvious reasons, ''Merci Docteur Rey'' tells the comic story--at least, comedy was the intention--of a young gay Parisian named Thomas (Stanislas Merhar) whose American opera diva mother, Elisabeth (the usually pitch-perfect Dianne Wiest), has hid from him for years that his father Bob (Simon Callow, notching his sixth Merchant Ivory credit) had left her for a gay man. That would be the same father who Thomas, whose secret search for sex has oddly led him to a stranger's closet, has just seen killed. Not knowing it was his father, or who the assailant was, or that his mother somehow figures in all this, yet needing to confess what he's seen, Thomas finds his way to the psychiatric office of one Dr. Rey. Except it's not really Dr. Rey to whom he speaks, Dr. Rey being dead of a heart attack under her desk, but a longtime patient, Penelope (veteran French Jane Birkin), who believes her cruel words has killed Dr. Rey, and so has impersonated the physician to the newcomer in an attempt to hide her crime. more...
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