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Name: What About Bob?
Released: 1991-5-17
Cast: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo

What About Bob?

PG
1h 39m
1991

82%

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Comic wizard Bill Murray teams up with Academy Award(R)-winner Richard Dreyfuss in an outrageously wild comedy that's sure to drive you off the deep end! 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. That's when the fun really begins! Bob innocently becomes the houseguest who just won't leave -- endearing himself to the other family members ... and, in the end, driving the stressed-out shrink absolutely crazy!

Director:

Frank Oz

Producer:

Laura Ziskin

Writer:

Tom Schulman

Cast:

Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

82%

Critics Consensus: Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss' chemistry helps make the most of a familiar yet durable premise, elevating What About Bob? into the upper ranks of '90s comedies.

Reviews

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Rene Jordan

This is a comedy? Dementia is an insidious and terrible disease, and Hollywood seems to find it very laughable. [Full review in Spanish]

What About Bob? is carried, almost single-handedly, by a peak performance by Murray, whose work here is the equal of his turns in Ghostbusters or Caddyshack.

Murray and Dreyfuss play off each other to their maximum advantage: Murray does what he does best, to shine-on and ultimately destroy authority figures, while Dreyfuss' portrayal of the runty doctor is splendidly Napoleonic.

...an affable endeavor that isn't quite the comedy classic one might've anticipated.

Essentially a two-man comedy riff, of the sort we see less and less at the movies.

August 25, 2022

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