Maze 2000

      Lyle Maze is an artist with Tourette's syndrome and an aversion to romance.  He is a successful painter who is also starting to explore sculpture.  He relies on his emotional armor which is a foot thick to protect him from other people and he rejects any attempt to fix him up with women.   He suffers from uncontrollable physical tics, loud outbursts and he also has obsessive-compulsive disorder.  Afraid that his artistic gifts and his disease spring from the same source, he ignores the well meaning advice of Mike, his doctor pal and refuses to try new drug therapies.  When rebel-without-a-cause Doctor Mike decides to go to Africa for seven months as a member of Doctors Without Borders, Lyle finds himself in a precarious position.  Callie, Mike's beautiful ad-executive girlfriend, has confided in him that she's pregnant but she doesn't want to use her condition as leverage.  Lyle begins coaching Callie through natural childbirth classes, playing a surrogate father-to-be and he cannot help falling in love with her.
     This is a somewhat tough movie to view, the physical tics and loud outbursts are distracting but the camera jiggles to show what Lyle sees during his episodes.  You can really see the difficulties he has and the reaction other people have to him.  I found it slightly strange that you see art work in different stages of completion but when Lyle has a show, all the cases are not shown and they seem like they are empty?  You don't know how this is going to end until the last scene.  3* (This movie is OK)

97 min, Drama directed by Rob Morrow with Laura Linney, Craig Sheffer, Rob Morrow, Rose Gregorio, Robert Hogan, Gia Carides, Betsy Aidem, Keenan Shimizu, Matthew Storff, Sheila Zane, Lanny Flaherty, Susan Shacter.

Note:  Note:  Blockbuster 3*,  imdb 6.3 out of 10, 41% critic 43% audience on Rotten