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What About Bob? is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Frank Oz released in USA on 17 may 1991 with Bill Murray
What About Bob? (1991)
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Add to a movie listWhat About Bob? is a 1991 black comedy film directed by Frank Oz, and starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray plays Bob Wiley, a psychiatric patient who follows his egotistical psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin (Dreyfuss) on vacation. When the unstable Bob befriends the other members of Marvin's family, it pushes the doctor over the edge.
The film received positive reviews and was a box office success. This film is number 43 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".
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Bob Wiley (Murray) is a good-natured man with great work ethic, but he suffers from multiple phobias and is divorced because his ex-wife is a fan of Neil Diamond. He feels good about the results of an initial session with Dr. Leo Marvin (Dreyfuss), a New York psychiatrist with a huge ego, but is immediately left on his own with a copy of Leo's new book, Baby Steps, when the doctor goes on vacation to Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire for a month. Unable to cope, Bob follows Leo to his vacation home. Leo is annoyed because he does not see patients on vacation but, seeing how desperate Bob is, he gives Bob a prescription telling him to "take a vacation from his problems." Bob seems to have made a breakthrough, but the next morning shows up at Leo's house again and says that he decided to take a vacation both in spirit and in fact. He is staying on at Lake Winnipesaukee as a guest of the Guttmans, a couple who own a coffee shop and are more than happy to have Bob as their guest and encourage him to be around Leo, as they hold a grudge against him for purchasing the lakeside home they had been scrimping and saving for years to buy.Actors
Bill Murray
(Bob Wiley)
Richard Dreyfuss
(Dr. Leo Marvin)
Julie Hagerty
(Fay Marvin)
Charlie Korsmo
(Sigmund "Siggy" Marvin)
Kathryn Erbe
(Anna Marvin)
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