What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy movie directed by Frank Oz which stars Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray. Bill Murray plays Bob Wiley, a multiphobic obsessive compulsive psychiatric patient who follows his successful and egotistical psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin, played by Richard Dreyfuss, on vacation. When the unstable Bob befriends the other members of the Marvin clan, it slowly drives Leo insane. Other characters include Fay Marvin, played by Julie Hagerty, Anna Marvin, played by Kathryn Erbe, Sigmund "Siggy" Marvin, played by Charlie Korsmo and Mr. and Mrs. Guttman, played by Tom Aldredge and Susan Willis. The Dresden Files is a TV series based on the books by Jim Butcher. ... What About Bob? is the twelfth episode of the SciFi Channel science-fiction series the Dresden Files. ... Image File history File linksMetadata What_About_Bob. ... Richard Frank Oznowicz (born May 25, 1944), better known as Frank Oz, is an English film director, actor and puppeteer. ... Laura Ziskin is an American film producer. ... Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (September 21, 1929 – June 10, 2003) was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral philosopher of his time. ... Alvin Sargent (born in 1931 in Pennsylvania) is a multiple award-winning American screenwriter. ... Laura Ziskin is an American film producer. ... Tom Schulman (born 1951 in Nashville) is an American screenwriter most famous for his screenplay Dead Poets Society which won the Best Screenplay Academy Award for 1989. ... William James Bill Murray (b. ... Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an Oscar-winning American actor. ... Miles Goodman, played by Trevor Lissauer, was a fictional character appearing on the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch. ... Michael Ballhaus (born 5 August 1935, Eichelsdorf, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany) is a German cinematographer and director of photography. ... Anne V. Coates (born 12 December 1925) is a Academy Award winning British film editor with a 40-year-plus career in film editing. ... The current logo for Touchstone Pictures films since 2002 Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (138th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke[[ laughter in general). ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Richard Frank Oznowicz (born May 25, 1944), better known as Frank Oz, is an English film director, actor and puppeteer. ... Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an Oscar-winning American actor. ... William James Bill Murray (b. ... Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). ... Hagerty in Lost in America Julie Hagerty (born June 15, 1955) is an American stage, screen, and television actress and model. ... Kathryn Erbe (born July 5, 1966) is an American actress best known for her role as Detective Alexandra Eames on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a spin-off of Law & Order. ... Charles Randolph Charlie Korsmo (born July 20, 1978) is an American who appeared as a child actor in several movies in 1990–1991, but now primarily works outside of the acting sphere. ... ...

Bill Murray improvised so many lines during the movie that accurate scripts couldn't be written until after shooting the scenes.

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Plot Sypnosis

When Dr. Leo Marvin, a trained psychiatrist, leaves his work to go on vacation in New Hampshire, he leaves his newly published book, "Baby Steps," with his patient, Bob Wiley. Unfortunetly, Bob still doesn't think he can make it alone without his doctor, so he fakes his own death and finds out where Leo went for vacation. He takes a bus to New Hampshire and arrives at a gas station, where he meets back up with Leo. He's not very happy with Bob visiting him, so he tells him to get on the bus and go back home. Bob refuses and follows Leo to his house.

Leo's family is happy to have Bob with them, but Leo is not. Bob's presence causes a number of events that really tick Leo off. These events include hanging out with his kids, Anna and Sigmund, getting Sigmund enough confidence to dive into the water (a feat Leo was not able to do, which leads him to push Bob into the lake himself), making a lot of weird noises during dinner, and sleeping over at his house.

Leo has an interview with Good Morning America, so he tries his hardest to get Bob away. Bob ends up staying, because the producers of the show think that it will be a great idea for a patient to be on with Leo. The show ends up in a disaster for Leo, as Bob completly steals the show, and everyone's hearts. After Good Morning America leaves, Leo takes Bob to an institution. Bob heads in, wondering why Leo isn't coming with him. Leo heads back home, happy that he is finally free. As soon as he arrives, though, he gets a phone call from the institution. Leo heads back, only to find Bob telling tons of jokes to the doctors. Leo ends up taking Bob back, dumping him in the middle of the road. Leo gets a speeding ticket and his car breaks down. Bob gets a ride back to the house. Leo fixes his car and heads back home, only to be surprised by a birthday party. His sister from Chicago comes to see him, but this is ruined when Bob appears and puts his arm around her. Leo goes insane and tackles Bob to the ground. Bob isn't hurt though. Leo has FINALLY had enough of Bob ruining his vacation. He breaks into an ammunition shop and steals a ton of dynamite. He takes Bob into the woods in the middle of the night and ties him up, strapping the dynamite around his body. Leo abandons him and "thinks" he is free at last. His happiness is ruined once again when Bob breaks free and returns to Leo and his family at the dock with Leo's birthday cake, claiming that Leo's "death therapy" cured him. Unfortunately, Bob placed the bags full of dynamite in the Leo's huge house, blowing it to pieces.

Leo is temporarily institutionalized, while Bob marries Leo's sister Lily. Leo recovers his senses just after Lily and Bob are pronounced husband and wife.

Trivia

The movie was filmed in and around the town of Moneta in Virginia located on Smith Mountain Lake. Production had to go south because at the real Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, the leaves were already turning for the Fall season. Smith Mountain Lake Smith Mountain Lake is a large artificial lake southeast of Roanoke, Virginia, and southwest of Lynchburg, Virginia. ... Lake Winnipesaukee at Sunset Lake Winnipesaukee is the largest lake in New Hampshire. ...

The local institute which Leo tries to commit Bob in is actually the local Elks Home for retirees in the nearby town of Bedford, Virginia.

Quotes

Dr. Leo Marvin: You understand right? There's no other solution. You won't go away.

Bob Wiley: Yes I will.

Dr. Leo Marvin: No you won't. You're just saying you will, so that when I don't kill you, you'll show up again and make everyone else in my life think you are wonderful and I'm a shmuck. But I'm not a shmuck Bob, and I'm not going to let you breeze into town and steal my family away just because you're crazy enough to be fun.

External link

• What About Bob? at the Internet Movie Database