Some patients call the office. This one shows up at the family cabin — and refuses to leave, turning a therapist's summer retreat into a slow-motion unraveling.
What is What About Bob? about?
A psychotherapist heads off for a family vacation expecting a break from his practice, but one of his most clingy patients tracks down the address and follows him there uninvited. What begins as an awkward intrusion grows steadily worse as the patient inserts himself into the family's routines, wins over the people the therapist loves most, and chips away at the doctor's composure day by day. The comedy builds on the gap between the therapist's professional calm and his mounting private frustration, with the vacation setting turning into the last place he can escape the very dependency he is supposed to be treating.
About the cast
Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss lead the cast as the patient and the psychotherapist at the center of the story, joined by Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe, Tom Aldredge, Susan Willis and Roger Bowen, who round out the family and supporting circle around them.
Context & significance
Classified as a straight comedy, the film runs a shade over ninety minutes and was produced in the United States, released in the early 1990s. Its premise sits in a familiar comic tradition of an uninvited guest disrupting a household, built here specifically around the imbalance of power between a therapist and the patient who won't respect any boundary between office hours and home life.
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