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Jones shows up at Howard's house. Howard deduces that Jones is having another manic episode and contacts Bowen when Jones takes off towards the construction site where he previously tried to jump off the building. This time Jones is able to calm himself just as Bowen shows up. With Bowen's help Jones
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Feeling guilty about the inappropriate relationship, Bowen confesses to Shaye and he insists she stop treating Jones and seeing him at all. Jones is transferred to another hospital but soon checks himself out. Upset over this and the suicide of another one of her patients, Amanda Chang, Bowen quits
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Bowen gives Jones a ride home from the hearing and he flirts with her while she tries to get more info from him about his illness. Jones reveals he resists treatment because he enjoys the benefits of his mania and despite Bowen's efforts to convince him, he stops taking his prescribed
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and he starts to open up. Howard visits Jones and they become friends. Jones rescues Bowen during a violent attack by a patient and they strengthen their bond as she comforts him while he struggles with missing the benefits of his mania while on medication and life at the hospital.
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for treatment, but benefiting from manic energy Jones is charming and rational during a competency hearing. He apologizes for the incidents at the concert and construction site and challenges Bowen's diagnosis because she has never seen him in a depressive cycle. He is released.
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As romantic attraction between Jones and Bowen grows, she contacts his ex-girlfriend to learn more about his past. Furious at the invasion of his privacy, Jones tries to leave the hospital but Bowen follows him, confesses her feelings for him and they sleep together.
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To prepare for the film, Richard Gere, Mike Figgis and Eric Roth studied bipolar disorder. Gere met with several people who have the disorder to gain insight and knowledge on what to accurately portray.
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While in the midst of another manic episode, Jones impulsively spends large amounts of money on a date and jumps up onto the stage during a concert performance of Beethoven's
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episode and come close to jumping off a building claiming he can fly. Saved from jumping by fellow construction worker Howard, he is transported to a psychiatric hospital.
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noted that the film would have been better if the romance plot between Jones and Libbie was left out, since it appeared forced and contrived.
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Although it was not released until 1993, most of the filming began to took place in November 1991 and was entirely finished in early 1992.
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reported that 43% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 5.20/10. On
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and starts conducting. Arrested, sent back to the hospital, and diagnosed correctly by Dr. Bowen as having
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Mr. Jones, a charismatic and dynamic man, talks his way into a job on a construction site, only to have a
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has finally accepted the need to treat his condition and the two happily reconcile.
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remarked that "Gere is fine, but his onscreen behavior turns this into
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gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.
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The film was released to mixed reviews; movie historian
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