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Should Frank have been disciplined for professional boundary violations? We see four generations of the central family.

Pearl Berman tells her husband Jack, "... Nuts..." (0:03)

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Uncle Al: ”You’re both crazy...” 
"At least Jacek was normal till he died..." 
Bill, referring to Pearl’s daughter Norma Schulman: ”No, she’s Judy Garland at the end of A Star Is Born.” (0:06)

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Pearl’s daughter Barbara “Bibby” LaSalle, referring to Norma: "She brought a date to her own father’s funeral..." 
Uncle Harry, referring to Norma: ”Lonnie, she lost a baby. That can make anyone crazy.” 
Joe: ”... I lost my wife...” 
Pearl tells Joe, ”... You’re very kind.” (0:08)

Norma Schulman: "You can’t mourn forever." (0:18)

Norma tells Bibby, "... You’re driving me crazy up here." (0:19)

Norma tells Bibby, referring to Pearl, "She’s just a little bit nervous about her date." (0:20)

Pearl tells Joe, "This is crazy." (0:26)

Pearl’s husband Jack asks Joe, "Why do you talk so crazy?..." (0:27)

Joe tells Pearl, "... I saw a woman haunted by the ghost of her own grace... I was haunted by this vision of you..." (0:28)

Joe tells Pearl, "... You lose your husband..." 
Pearl: ”I’m in mourning...” (0:33)

Her friend Becky tells Frieda, "I’ve seen needles that you would faint from." (0:34)

His bartender brother Paolo, referring to Joe: "He’s drunk... my brother always cooks drunk..." (0:39)

Joe’s son-in-law Frank asks Norma, ".... Did you know that I’m a psychiatrist?" 
”Very difficult to keep a secret from a psychiatrist...” (0:41)

Pearl: "... I wondered how long it would take me to become one of those widows who talks to their dead husbands." (0:43)

Norma’s son Swee’ Pea asks Frank, "Are you really a psychiatrist?" (0:48)

Bibby tells Norma, "... you didn’t solve anything by not going to Daddy’s funeral." 
Norma: ”... Don’t you tell me... not until you bury a child.” (0:48)

Swee’ Pea tells Frank, "... now we’ll see if I’m crazy." 
Frank: ”Well, who says you’re crazy?” 
Sweet Pea: ”Don’t worry...” 
”... I’ll do it, when she’s not in a crazy mood.” (0:48)

Bibby tells her children Rhonda and Mark, "... Sweet dreams..." (0:50)

Theater marquee: "The Graduate" (0:51)

Pearl tells Joe’s bartender brother Paolo, "... you gotta tell your crazy brother." (0:52)

Pearl tells Joe, "... You worry about your family..." 
Joe, referring to Swee’ Pea: ”... he sees a psychiatrist. ” (0:57)

Bibby tells Pearl, referring to Norma, "... you got one kid livin’ in a fantasy world..." 
Pearl: ”I’d still have some lunatic Italian tellin’ me I should run off with him.” 
Bibby: ”Daddy’s dying was not abandonment...” 
Pearl: ”... your father... sleepwalking through your whole childhood... such a rage it was blow this building apart...” (1:06)

Scene from The Graduate (1:09)

Norma tells Frank, "You don’t have to be so nervous..." 
Frank: ”I’m not nervous.” (1:10)

Frank tells Norma, ”... The Graduate, that’s where I’ve seen this.” 
”Are you sure this was in The Graduate?” 
”What are you, crazy?” 
Norma: ”Why is it... suddenly they’re crazy?” (1:11)

Pearl: "Didn’t know you were so sentimental." (1:20)

Pearl asks Frieda, "... What kind of idiot would leave you $300 in a shoe." 
Frieda: ”... It’s too crazy...” (1:22)

Joe prevents Swee’ Pea from jumping to his death. (1:26)

Swee’ Pea asks Norma, "Why are you so crazy? Why do you have to be so crazy?" 
Norma: ”So I’m a little bit crazy...” 
”... asks if their mothers are crazy...” 
Swee’ Pea: ”But you’re really crazy.” 
Norma: ”... So I’m crazy...” 
Swee’ Pea: ”... Michael died on me too... And you went crazy, and now I’m crazy, just like you.” (1:28)

Pearl tells Joe, “... the only fool bigger than the one who knows it all..." (1:33)

Paolo tells Joe, "No, are you nuts?..." 
”... her beauty is so breathtaking you have to swoon.” 
: ”You are crazy.” (1:35)

Pearl tells Joe, "... you have some very peculiar habits." (1:38)

Harry asks Al, "... are you crazy?" (1:39)

Becky tells Frieda, "I say you’re crazy." (1:40)

Swee’ Pea tells Pearl, "Don’t worry, grandma.." (1:41)

Norma visits the grave of her son in a cemetery. (1:41)

Frieda tells Becky, "... I look at... Pearl... and how brave she is..." (1:45)

Frieda: "It’s just nerves." (1:47)