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The Couch Trip (1988)

R01/15/1988Comedy1h 37m
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A comedy of truly loony proportions.

Overview

The escaped mental patient and delinquent John W. Burns Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Dan Aykroyd

    John W. Burns, Jr.

  2. Cast 1

    Walter Matthau

    Donald Becker

  3. Cast 1

    Charles Grodin

    George Matlin

  4. Cast 1

    Donna Dixon

    Laura Rollins

  5. Cast 1

    Richard Romanus

    Harvey Michaels

  6. Cast 1

    Mary Gross

    Vera Maitlin

  7. Cast 1

    David Clennon

    Lawrence Baird

  8. Cast 1

    Arye Gross

    Perry Kovin

  9. Cast 1

    Victoria Jackson

    Robin

"The Couch Trip" is a film where the comedy truly works and it is highly amusing to watch Dan Aykroyd masquerading as Doctor Baird and brazenly hosting Doctor Maitlin's staid phone-in radio show in his own inimitable way - it is almost like watching Ken Kesey's enduring character Randal P. McMurphy let loose on a much broader canvas than the one afforded to him by a mere unauthorised fishing trip on board a yacht. This film also seems to have an inexhaustible number of places to go and by God it insists upon dragging us all along to those places as Burns gleefully swears on the radio and succe...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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