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What About Bob?: Directed by Frank Oz. With Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo. A successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, tracks him down during his family vacation.
Benefiting from a first-and-only star pairing of Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray, the agreeable if not wholly politically correct family farce What About Bob? (1991) played to the particular comic strengths of its leads as an uptight psychotherapist and his intractable new patient, and proved a respectable $63 million spring hit for Disney in its theatrical run.
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure ...
Murray plays Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient who fears everything! After seeking help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin (Dreyfuss), Bob feels revived. But when the good doctor skips town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows -- showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat.
May 17, 2021 · Bob Wiley is not a young man, and his dealings with his anxiety are routine enough for the audience to infer that he has been struggling with it for the majority of his life. His excited reaction ...
May 17, 2021 · Of course, Bob steals the spotlight in a cringe-worthy interview comparable to anything Diane Sawyer has ever done. Leo Tries to Have Bob Committed Leo loses it and attempts to have Bob institutionalized. Due to progress made spending time with Leo’s family, Bob proves his sanity by befriending the hospital staff and making therapy jokes.
May 17, 2018 · Bob’s such a headcase and an around-the-clock challenge that his shrink pawns him off on a hated colleague (Richard Dreyfuss), a publicity-mongering poop who is about to take off on a month’s ...
