High Anxiety

(1977)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 416 votes

Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Year: 1977

Runtime: 94 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Mel Brooks

Cast: Mel Brooks, Мэдлин Кан, Клорис Личмен, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Ховард Моррис, Dick Van Patten, Jack Riley, Charlie Callas, Ron Clark

Plot

A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.

Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, "high anxiety," in order to clear his name. A homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock; contains many parodies of famous Hitchcock scenes from THE BIRDS, PSYCHO, and VERTIGO.