Farrah Fawcett will hit the silver screen in Robert Altman’s newest comedy/drama film Dr. T and the Women on Friday, October 13, 2000. Fawcett co-stars with an extraordinary cast which includes, Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Liv Tyler, plus many more.

In the film, Dr. Sullivan Travis (Gere) is a man at the top of his game, a rich and successful Dallas gynecologist who “religion” is women. In his immediate family and in his office, women surround him. He is loving and giving to each and every one at all times. Yet, his over booked schedule starts to take it’s toll. His home life starts to boil over, his beloved wife Kate (Fawcett) has regressed into a childlike state just as plans for the upcoming wedding of DeeDee (Hudson) shift into high gear. With Dr. T’s champagne-loving sister-in-law Peggy (Dern) moves in with her children - the overwhelmed doctor retreats to his country club’s golf course, which adds yet another woman into his life, a golf pro, Bree (Hunt). With the gale forces of the Texas blue northern, Dr. T and Women holds a lot of surprises of the long revisited topic of relationships between men and women.

Fawcett finds new ground with the character of Kate Travis. The character steps out of reality and into the “Hestia complex.” Fawcett said research meant studying the Greek goddesses, namely Hestia one of the virgin goddesses. Fawcett literally give it her all, stripping down to the character's core, a surprise twist that actually occurs at the beginning of the film in a fountain. It’s sort of a freeing of Kate’s “spirit.” “She becomes very uncomplicated, mentally,” Fawcett said, “There’s a contradiction here because her condition complicates everyone else’s life, but for her, she’s trying to simplify things.”

Well, to see what did happen to Fawcett’s character in the fountain drop by your local movie theatre on Friday, October 13, 2000 for Dr. T and the Women!

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