The President's Analyst

The President's Analyst

1967 · 103 min · EN · 5.6 (35 votes)
Dir. Theodore J. Flicker · Starring James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Pat Harrington Jr., Barry McGuire · Music Lalo Schifrin

Only two people on earth want Sidney Schaefer alive. Sidney Schaefer. And the President of the United States.

ComedyScience FictionThriller

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.

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A dizzying, paranoid trip through the anxieties of the Cold War. This film feels like a fever dream where everyone is watching, and the only escape is into the absurd. It's a groovy, unsettling ride.

paranoidsatiricalanxiousabsurdiststeadyCold War satirepsychedelicspy thrillerparanoiaconformitygovernment overreachidentity
secret agentconspiracypsychiatrist