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1983
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I doubt if it's true that the clients are saner than the psychiatrists, but it is a belief much cherished by comedy writers, who love to devise stories like the one in "The Couch Trip." A rich and famous radio psychiatrist has a crackup, his agent hires a temporary replacement and the new man is actually a mental patient masquerading as a doctor.
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Dan Ackroyd does his usual satirical turn as a con who seizes a great opportunity to steal a contract from his prisons physician. He retreats to California to start his work giving advice on a radio show pretending to be the infamous Dr Lawrence Baird.
The movie opens at a psychiatric institution in Illinois where John W. Burns Jr. (Dan Aykroyd) is being held against his will. However, if he is a prisoner, it is in the sense that Bob Crane's Colonel Hogan was prisoner: the inmate is literally running the asylum.
Jan 15, 1988 · The Couch Trip: Directed by Michael Ritchie. With Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon. A burnt-out shrink needs a temp. A charming escaped convict takes over his practice and radio show.
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- Comedy
- Michael Ritchie
- 1988-01-15
John Burns (Dan Aykroyd) is a patient at a mental institution who gets an unexpected shot at freedom when circumstances find him mistaken for a colleague of Dr. George Maitlin (Charles Grodin).
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- Michael Ritchie
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- Dan Aykroyd
A review of the 1988 comedy The Couch Trip starring Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin and Donna Dixon, directed by Michael Ritchie.
The Couch Trip is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin and Donna Dixon. It is loosely based on the 1971 novel, The Couch Trip, by Ken Kolb.
