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What About Bob? (1991) 7.0
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7.0/10 from 47,274 users
Metascore: 60/100
Reviews: 158 user | 27 critic | 17 from Metacritic.com A successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, a manipulative, obsessively compulsive narcissist, tracks him down during his family vacation. Director:Frank Oz |
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Marie Grady
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Doctor Leo Marvin, an egotistical psychotherapist in New York City, is looking forward to his forthcoming appearance on a "Good Morning America" telecast, during which he plans to brag about "Baby Steps," his new book about emotional disorder theories in which he details his philosophy of treating patients and their phobias. Meanwhile, Bob Wiley is a recluse who is so afraid to leave his own apartment that he has to talk himself out the door. When Bob is pawned off on Leo by a psychotherapist colleague, Bob becomes attached to Leo. Leo finds Bob extremely annoying. When Leo accompanies his wife Fay, his daughter Anna, and his son Siggy to a peaceful New Hampshire lakeside cottage for a month-long vacation, Leo thinks he's been freed from Bob. Leo expects to mesmerize his family with his prowess as a brilliant husband and remarkable father who knows all there is to know about instructing his wife and raising his kids. But Bob isn't going to let Leo enjoy a quiet summer by the lake. By ... Written by Todd Baldridge
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Country:
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17 May 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$35,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$63,710,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Bob Wiley: I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful... I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful... I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful...
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from "Good Morning America (1975)"
Written by Marvin Hamlisch and Richard Hazard
Courtesy of Capitol Cities ABC, Inc.
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According to show-business trade paper 'The Hollywood Reporter', in an article "Richard Dreyfuss Sues Disney Over 'What About Bob? (1991)'", the star filed suit against the studio because 'according to a complaint filed on Thursday [09/04/2015] in [the] LA {Los Angeles] Superior Court, Disney has refused a demand by Dreyfuss . . . to hire their chosen auditor - Robinson Inc., founded by David J. Robinson''. The article goes on to say: "In a potentially watershed case from attorney Neville Johnson, the complaint lays out how profit participation auditors are called upon to find monies due to profit participants and how studios are 'make auditing as onerous as possible'. Often, when big stars do battle with studios over auditing, it never gets reported publicly because of confidentiality agreements and disputes adjudicated in closed door arbitration. According to the lawsuit, the arbitrators don't wish to upset the studios for fear of losing repeat business. 'It's a one-sided world where corporations assert their control over talent who do not have the leverage to otherwise protect themselves'." See more »Goofs
The lake is obviously not in New Hampshire as evidenced by the abundance of Longleaf Pine trees, which only grow as far north as southern Virginia (where the lake scenes were filmed). See more »Quotes
[first lines]Bob Wiley: I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful... I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful... I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful...
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Good Morning America Themefrom "Good Morning America (1975)"
Written by Marvin Hamlisch and Richard Hazard
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l wasn't sure if I wanted to give this movie 7 or 8 points till seeing the last 20 minutes. There Richard Dreyfuss has been in full cry. I needed to laugh so hard, that I am forced to give this movie 8 points. As a movie itself, if I use all criteria I use on other films, this movie would not deserve 8 points. The story is predictable (I knew exactly how it was going to end from the very beginning), camera work, music and characters are not actually special. All has been there before, and was copied again and again afterward. But as a comedy, this movie totally did what it was supposed to do. It was absolutely hilarious!
Sometimes the humor was a bit too silly, and Bill Murray has been overdoing it from time to time - and I still needed to laugh my butt off. Watching the way smaller Dreyfuss beside the tall, dumb looking Bill, screaming and shouting like an angry dwarf, was a way too funny image.