1991 · bill-murray · farce · psychiatry
What About Bob?
Directed by Frank Oz1h 40m1991
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 and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
Our read: What About Bob? (1991) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive bill-murray · farce · psychiatry entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured bill-murray / farce, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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