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Rated: PG; Genre: Comedy; With: Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

WHAT ABOUT BOB? (PG) Bill Murray, looking blobbier than ever (his features seem to be shrinking into his head), plays Bob Wiley, a Manhattan nerd who's a quivering bundle of anxieties and phobias. He gets an appointment with Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), a noted psychiatrist, and then tails the doc and his family to their lovely summer home on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee. Murray's performance begins as a droll piece of comic masochism. He makes Bob such a pathetically whiny mess that we can easily understand how he'd drive a psychiatrist crazy. But as Dr. Marvin's family starts to take a weird shine to Bob, the movie, which begins as a rambunctious satire, devolves into a one- joke affair-a kind of big-budget Green Acres. B-


Posted May 31, 1991
 

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