Review: What About Bob? (1992)

Title: What About Bob?
Year: 1992
Starring: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss
Genres: Family, Comedy
MPAA: PG
Kids-In-Mind.com: N/A (Approx. 2.2.3)
My Rating: 7.6
IMDb Rating: 6.7

Synopsis: Bob Wiley (Murray), an obsessive-compulsive psychiatric patient, is referred by his retiring psychiatrist to Dr. Leo Marvin (Dreyfuss) just before Marvin is to leave on vacation with his family. Bob becomes attached to Dr. Marvin after just one session and begins to become helpless to his phobias. After a couple of plots to find out where Dr. Marvin is vacationing, he finally gets it out of Dr. Marvin's receptionist after faking suicide. He takes a bus to the New Hampshire lake at which Dr. Marvin is vacationing with his family; Dr. Marvin is not pleased. The family, however, warms up to Bob and their insisting on hospitality keeps driving Dr. Marvin up the wall. As the film progresses, Dr. Marvin becomes more and more insane, while Bob becomes more and more lucid. By the end of the movie, Dr. Marvin tries to kill Bob by tying him to explosives, with which Bob cooperates due to his admiration for Dr. Marvin and the guise of 'Death Therapy'. Bob escapes from it, declaring himself cured. It then skips to an undetermined time in the future, with Dr. Marvin completely psychotic and Bob a normal man.

My Take: This was a fun family film. I find it hard to believe that it only has a 6.7 on IMDb. While it doesn't hold a candle to Murray's classic film Groundhog Day (1993), this is a fun family film that all ages will enjoy. Murray's performance was great, as always, but I particularly enjoyed Dreyfuss's ability to be a complete jerk.

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