Try as you might, you won’t find a directing credit in the program for “Psycho Therapy.” Watching it, you won’t find any evidence of a director, either.
Frank Strausser’s alleged comedy deals with Nancy (Jan Leslie Harding), a neurotic shrink — is there any other kind? — and her new couples-therapy patients, the high-strung Lily (Angelica Page) and her commitment-phobic fiancé, Phillip (Laurence Lau).
But the man joining Lily at her first session isn’t Phillip but Dorian (Jeffrey Carlson), an ex-boyfriend trying to win her back.
Hilarity fails to ensue.
The shrink — whose advice to female patients runs along the lines of “If we waited for men to figure things out, we’d be spinsters” — has her hands full with this troubled trio, especially when Phillip shows up at the same time as his rival.
“Is this a group thing?” he wonders.
The phantom director — Alex Lippard was originally announced, but he’s probably entered the witness protection program — has assembled a talented ensemble to uneven effect.
Page (the former Angelica Torn) gives Lily a tart, edgy sexiness; Carlson is a droll delight as her ex and Lau nicely laid-back as his rival. Harding goes way overboard with her shtick, as if desperately trying to overcome the flimsiness of the material.
The whole enterprise has the dated, artificial feel of that old TV show “Love, American Style,” except those skits lasted a few minutes, not a painfully attenuated 90. Sometimes they were even funny.