Stockard Channing stars in this made-for-cable comedy-drama as Dr. Beth Noonan, a female psychiatrist trying to hold her life together as she guides four of her patients through personal turmoil. Lauren Travis (
Elle MacPherson), a respected lawyer, finds her sexual identity thrown into question when she discovers she's attracted to another woman, Casey (
Kate Capshaw). Helen McCormick (
Glenne Headly) is forced to spend a week with her two estranged sisters, Kathy (
Allison Janney) and Kim (Rebecca DeMornay) after the death of their mother. Nia Morgan (
Lynn Whitfield) is convinced her husband is being unfaithful to her; she hires Rachel (
Linda Hamilton) to lure her spouse into infidelity, but Rachel learns that Nia's husband is actually involved with Betty (
Mia Farrow), an older and unglamorous waitress. And after Dr. Noonan decides she can't handle the deep neuroses of Suzanne Nabor (
Camryn Manheim), Suzanne snaps and takes the doctor hostage, along with three other people. It's a Girl Thing also stars
Scott Bakula,
Buck Henry, and
Bruce Greenwood; it first aired in two parts on the Showtime premium cable network in January, 2001. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide