An analyst hits the road -- both to answer her emotional needs and to beat the rent -- in this quirky comedy-drama. Dr. Rebecca Kaplan (Leonor Benedetto) is a psychiatrist who left behind an unpleasant past in Buenos Aires to come to America and set up a practice in New York City. Over the course of two decades, Dr.Kaplan has established a loyal if somewhat eccentric clientele in the Big Apple's multiethnic boroughs, but when a new landlord takes over the building where she keeps her office, she's informed that her rent will be increased -- by 2,000 percent. Unwilling to pay the punishing tariff, Dr. Kaplan comes up with a better idea. With the help of Mike (Santiago Douglas), the doctor moves her practice to a mobile home, with Mike driving and checking in patients while she interviews her clients in the back. Dr. Kaplan's new mobile office only improves her practice, but in time she decides it's time to go back to Argentina to pay a visit and take care of some old business that's been troubling her. While directed by Chilean filmmaker Cecilia Barriga and produced by a Spanish concern, Time's Up was primarily filmed on location in New York City, using digital video equipment to stretch the independent production's lean budget.
by Mark Deming
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