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What About Bob?

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...those who like this movie and those who don't. I happen to like this movie!
What About Bob? is a film directed by Frank Oz (the man who gave the voice of the Cookie Monster, Grover and Bert from Sesame Street), and starring Bill Murray (Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day) and Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl, Tin Men). The film is a laugh-out-loud comedy about a psychiatrist's worst nightmare; a mental patient that just won't go away!
Bill Murray remarkably plays the annoying yet very nice and gentle Bob Wiley, a man suffering from a personality disorder, who is refered to Dr. Leo Marvin, played by Dreyfuss, by his previous doctors who just couldn't handle him anymore. Bob is more than just a patient, he is the kind of guy who doesn't acknowledge the personal and private lives of his doctors and therefore sticks to them like 'crazy glue' and just won't go away! Dr Marvin is in for a big and unpleasant surprise after his first and last session with Bob right before he is to embark on a one month vacation with his family in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. Bob follows him there and that's when the funniest doctor-patient relationship/fued begins.
Murray gives a very funny performance in this one, getting on your nerves in most of the scenes he is in but in the meantime, causing the laughs to break out. However, the funniest thing about this movie is watching Dr Marvin slowly but surely being driven over the edge and then breaking out mad!

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One of the measures of a good movie is if you recite lines from it in normal dialog. My family uses many quotes from this movie and has been doing so for years. Whenever my wife is run down she pulls this one out and immediately starts to laugh. This is one of our favorite wacky comedies.

I loved this movie... very good performances by both dreyfuss and murray, great script and very funny.

I saw this movie for the first time on HBO a few days ago, at first I started to giggle my head off, then I roared with laughter from the middle to the end!! Now I wanna buy it! The funniest part was when Bob made exaggerated noises while he was eating!! And since I'm a comedian in tranning, (I'm only 13), Bill Murray is my new comedic idol...along with Whoopi Goldberg, Ellen Degeneres, Eddie Murfey, Oprah (she is funny, ya know)and Bette Midler!

This Great movie Staring bill Murray And Richard Dreyfuss Star In This Comedy About Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) A Gentle Yet Lonely
Thearpy patient Who goes To A session With Dr Leo marvin (Richard Dreyfuss) A Psychiatrist Who Is Starting To Get Popular And His Going To A Lake resort For A Vaction When Bob Decides To Take A Vaction There With Him He Slowly Starts To Drive His Psychiarist Crazy Great Proformences From Bill Murray A Comic Wizard And A Great Proformece From Richard Dreyfuss An Oscar Winner This Movie Is A Must own For Any fan Of Comedy Movies

"What About Bob?" is a rare film indeed. A comedy that you just don't get tired of. One that 13 years after it's initial release, has lost none of it's joyusly demented charm.

Unlike what a few of the previous reviews have said...Bill Murray & Richard Dreyfus work wonderfully together. The storyline is simple: Murray is Bob Wiley. A sweet man, who is afraid of just about everything. and Dreyfus is his new Therapist, Dr Leo Marvin. Bob ends up tracking his Dr and his family to their vacation home, and proceeds to invade their life in every way imaginable. Bill Murray plays Bob with a sense of complete joy and abandon, and it's obvious that it's a role only he could have done.

My only complaint, is that for the DVD release, there is zero special features. it would have been nice to see behind the scenes footage, or possbly some kind of commentary...but the movie still stands alone as a one of the funniest ever made.

Very Funny film! Bob is a man who is afraid, so he has to go see a shrink. The shrinks life goes to hell in a handbasket when Bob decides to stick around when he is clearly not wanted by the shrink. Everyone falls inlove with Bob and the shrinks life is never the same after that.

Bob Wiley is afaid of everything. But, just when he's starting to recive haelp, his pshyciatrist leaves on vacation. Now Bob is on a questfor help, as is the pshyciatrist.
What about Bob? is a great comedy for people of all ages. Adult's will love the one-liners and kids will love the antics.
Starring Bill Murray and Richaerd Dreyfuss.
HIGHLY RECOMMENED.

Bill Murray is his silliest as Bob Wiley in WHAT ABOUT BOB?. Wiley has a few mental handicaps. He has what is called Tourette's Syndrome which is when a person exclaims angrily or frustratedly. He has a phobia of touching things previously handled by other people with bare hands so he uses handkerchiefs,gloves,napkins or paper towels. Wiley's psychiatrist quits his paractice and Wiley is referred to another psychiatrist,Leo Marvin(Richard Dreyfuss). Dr. Marvin wrote a book called Baby Steps and gives a copy to Wiley when visiting Dr. Marvin. "That should give you a lot to digest while I'm on vacation." says Marvin. After Dr. Marvin,his wife Faye(Julie Hagerty),and their two kids retreat to their vacation home in Lake Winnipesaukee,Wiley shows up at the retreat,shockingly surprising Leo. Leo was told that Wiley committed suicide,but Wiley's arrival proved that untrue. Wiley endears himself to Faye and the Marvins' children Sigmund(or Siggy) and Anna. Leo was scheduled to make an appearance on TV's Good Morning America. Joan Lunden has a cameo. Wiley and Leo were not supposed to meet again until after Labor Day when Leo resumes his practice. Leo increasingly becomes upset with Wiley that Leo kicks Wiley out of the house(Wiley was sworn in as a house guest at the suggestion of Faye). Wiley appeared with Leo on GMA. Leo was raving about the success of his book. He was asked how Baby Steps made a sudden,wonderful impact on Bob. Bob quipps,"Mashed potatoes and gravy". Leo's family commended Leo on a wonderful job he did. This is where Leo kicks Bob out. Leo said Bob was a disaster. Leo drives Bob to a mental hospital managed by a friend of his. Bob is sworn in as a patient and then telling the other patients jokes and making them laugh. Bob is discharged and is driven back to the Marvins' house. Leo returns home to a surprise birthday party,one of the guests being his sister Lili from Chicago. When Leo spots Bob,Leo jumps on Bob and the two roll around and wrestle. Bob then undergoes a "death therapy" session. That was Leo ties Bob up,surrounded by loose gunpowder. Leo promises to take care of Gil,Bob's pet fish."I'll feed him 'til he's big and fat! Then I'll eat him!".Bob wonderfully beat the explosion untying himself before the "kaboom",but,some of the gunpowder ended up in the Marvins' house,destroying it upon the explosion. Leo is in a mental hospital,the same one he committed Bob to in an earlier scene,in a wheelchair! He is hardly attentive even at the wedding in the last scene. Bob and Lili become husband and wife making Bob and Leo brothers-in-law. When the reverend asked if there was any reason why this couple should not be united in holy matrimony,Leo emerged from his "coma",dressed in pajamas and robe and still in the wheelchair. Sigmund exclaimed,"Dad's back!". The film-end notes claim that Bob went back to school and became a psychiatrist. He also wrote a huge best-seller entitled "Death Therapy". Leo planned to sue him for the rights. The film was directed by Frank Oz who previously directed DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS and would after this film,direct HOUSESITTER.

If you're looking for a funny movie to sit down and watch some evening, here it is! This has got to be one of my favorite comedies. Thank goodness I didn't take the advice of a friend, who told me there was only one funny scene in the movie ("I'm a sailor!"). That was his opinion. My opinion is practically every scene is funny.

The story is about a man named Bob who has a fear of nearly everything. After wading through gobs of psychiatrists, he finally finds one that he thinks can help him - but the man is going on vacation for a month! Fearing to be alone without the guidance of his newfound teacher, Bob embarks on a wild quest to find the shrink and continue to seek help. Unfortunately, when Bob succeeds, he ends up driving his doctor a little...crazy.

This is a great movie that I plan on watching again in the future. While I realize the DVD isn't loaded with special features like many others are, I think the story alone is worth the cheap price that Amazon's currently selling the movie for.