Final Analysis is a 1992 American neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Phil Joanou and written by Wesley Strick from a concept by forensic psychiatrist Robert H.

[2] It stars Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts, Keith David, and Paul Guilfoyle.

[1] The film received mixed critical reviews,[3] but was positively compared to the works of Alfred Hitchcock, particularly Vertigo.

While climbing the stairs, she drops her purse and lets loose a metal dumbbell handle, which she claims she keeps for protection.

Isaac hires Mike to represent her and enlists an expert witness on pathological intoxication to testify on her behalf.

He talks to a bailiff who recognized Heather before her trial, and he recalls that she had been a spectator in the courthouse whenever Isaac testified as an expert witness.

As she chases Isaac onto the balcony, he deduces that Heather was the one who was raped by her father, not Diana, and started the fire that killed him.

[5] The original script was set in New York City, but was changed due to an ongoing union strike.

The climax originally took place on the Golden Gate Bridge, but the sequence was re-written due to budget constraints.

Other filming locations included the San Francisco County Superior Court, the Letterman Army Hospital, and the Kimpton Sir Francis Drake Hotel.

[9] Variety magazine called Final Analysis "a crackling good psychological melodrama" with "tantalizing double-crosses".

[10] Kathleen Maher of the Austin Chronicle said the film does not live up to its influences and was critical of the leads, calling the buildup to their sex scene "excruciating".

[11] Rita Kempley, writing in The Washington Post, called the film "an implausible psycho thriller" and said director Joanou "doesn't have any of his own ideas.