What About Bob? Movie Review – Starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss
by "What about Bob?" is a very funny film starring Bill Murray as Bob Wiley, a neurotic patient psyciatric and Richard Dreyfuss as Dr. Leo Marvin, choking his psychiatrist.
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Both do a great job with this image, especially Murray, who I think is playing his best role in this comedy movie.
Dr. Leo Marvin is a successful psychiatrist in New York who is about to appear on “Good Morning America” to promote his new “Baby Steps” book. Neurotic Bob Wiley is seems to be afraid of everything. Bob is known as Dr. Marvin for a colleague who is incredibly relieved to have him back. Dr. Marvin is about to go on vacation so can not really be bothered with problems when Bob and brushes him away. Bob is given a copy of “small steps” and told him to read and follow their advice until you return from your vacation.
Bob is a great help, so he tracks down Leo for his home for the holidays and take a bus there, along with his goldfish Gill beloved pets, which takes in a small bowl, and take with them. Leo neighbors, who are furious with him, buy a holiday home of your dreams, Bob where he lives, to irritate. When Bob arrives, Leo is furious, but Bob befriends Leo family, who are all very friendly to him.
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Bob ends up spending the next few days with the family Leon, to the disappointment of Leo. It helps Leo Sun Siggi overcome her fear of diving in and out sailing with his daughter Anna and her friends. After Leo pushes Bob into the water, his family insist that he apologize to Bob and invite him to dinner, what he does. Then begins a huge rain, Leo is forced to let Bob stay at his house, as the eve of his “Good Morning America” presentation.
The next morning, Leo Bob is running out of the house before the TV crew arrived, but they arrive before leaving. Want Bob to appear on the show, so Leo is forced to leave in the series, much against his will. Leo fails bad program, but Bob captive audience. After the show, Leo gets angry and starts to Bob out of the house.
Leo figures the best way to get rid of Bob is for him a room in a mental health clinic where he believes his team is going to help. Instead, Bob ends up entertaining them with his humor, when they release it. Furious, he and Leo brings him stranded on the road. But Leo is stopped for speeding and he gets mud all his costume. To make matters worse, it appears that it is anniversary of Leo and his family prepared a surprise party for him.
When Leo returns home, his family and friends come out to surprise everyone, including her beloved sister Lily in Chicago. But when Bob shows up and puts his arm around Lily, Leo, he loses, and tackle Bob.
Leo is on the verge of collapse. A doctor comes to treat him more. The family decides it’s better than Bob leaves before Leo gets, Bob reluctantly leaves. But Leo was secretly planning to get rid of Bob once and for all. Leo runs away from home, going to the local store and buy some explosives. Here is Bob’s tie, explosives on him, and starts a timer by calling this “the death of the therapy.” Bob does not realize that Leo is really trying to kill him, thought is only a form of play therapy, but he managed to untie. Then return to the home of Leon, which established that the explosives, and goes to his death Leo congratualte therapy. Shortly after the explosive s’ extinguish the fire to the house. Leo neighbors are outside fishing and enthusiastically chanting, “Burn! Burn!”
Now Leo is a real failure. The film ends with Bob marry Lily. Leo finally recovered when marriage vows are completed. Bob continues to write a book called “Death Therapy” and Leo try to sue.
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