Films like What About Bob?.

What About Bob? (1991) reads as Warm, breathless, measured bill-murray / farce, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Soapdish (1991) poster
1. Soapdish1991

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Flodder (1986) poster
2. Flodder1986

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Friday (1995) poster
3. Friday1995

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stir Crazy (1980) poster
4. Stir Crazy1980

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) poster
5. Down and Out in Beverly Hills1986

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Chicken and Duck Talk (1988) poster
6. Chicken and Duck Talk1988

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Waterboy (1998) poster
7. The Waterboy1998

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bal Poussière (1989) poster
8. Bal Poussière1989

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bowfinger (1999) poster
9. Bowfinger1999

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Jit (1990) poster
10. Jit1990

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Analyze This (1999) poster
11. Analyze This1999

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Married to the Mob (1988) poster
12. Married to the Mob1988

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are What About Bob?’s neighbours — where are yours?

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