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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.
- Michael Ritchie
- 2 min
KatMiss 29 May 2001. Michael Ritchie's "The Couch Trip" is a wonderfully anarchic comedy about what makes a good psychiatrist. It is so subtle and wicked that you start to realize what a stinging satire it really is. It is also Dan Akyroyd's best movie, made in a particularly great film year (1988)for him. First, "The Great Outdoors" and now this.
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Budget. $19 million. Box office. $11,005,304. 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.
- $19 million
- Michel Colombier
- January 15, 1988
- Lawrence Gordon
Rated: 3/5 • Apr 2, 2005. 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 ...
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- Dan Aykroyd
"The Couch Trip" is a film where the comedy truly works and it is highly amusing to watch Dan Aykroyd masquerading as Doctor Baird and brazenly hosting Doctor Maitlin's staid phone-in radio show in his own inimitable way - it is almost like watching Ken Kesey's enduring character Randal P. McMurphy let loose on a much broader canvas than the one afforded to him by a mere unauthorised fishing ...
In thrillers, the ending is a chase and a shootout. In comedies, it's some kind of a bizarre set piece involving stunts or special effects. Hollywood abandoned all notions that a movie should end as it began, with the relationships of the characters. Too bad. "The Couch Trip" begins well. Grodin, one of the most dependable comic actors in the ...
