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"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…
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The Couch Trip
“A comedy of truly loony proportions.”
55%
Movie
1h 37m
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The Couch Trip (1988) — AI movie analysis
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Story & themes: The escaped mental patient and delinquent John W. Burns Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird. Our models also surface themes such as ai from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling (~97 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate The Couch Trip 55% (116 votes) — mixed but watchable scores for this movie.
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Synopsis
The escaped mental patient and delinquent John W. Burns Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
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- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1988-01-15
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- TMDB rating
- 5.5
- TMDB ID
- 23752
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The escaped mental patient and delinquent John W. Burns Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
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The official runtime for The Couch Trip is approximately 97 minutes.
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Cast
Dan Aykroyd
John W. Burns, Jr.
Walter Matthau
Donald Becker
Charles Grodin
George Matlin
Donna Dixon
Laura Rollins
Richard Romanus
Harvey Michaels
Mary Gross
Vera Maitlin
David Clennon
Lawrence Baird
Arye Gross
Perry Kovin
Victoria Jackson
Robin
Michael DeLorenzo
Lopez
Mickey Jones
Watkins
J.E. Freeman
Unger
David Wohl
Dr. Smet
Michael Ensign
Hendricks
Carol Mansell
Mrs. Blair
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Robert Hirschfeld
Night Watchman
Charles Levin
TV Reporter
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Kevin Rooney
Cop at Hollywood Sign
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"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 successfully prices himself into the higher echelons of the top salary bracket, but above all this it is a thoroughly entertaining and well engineered film which never really loses any of its enthusiastic momentum until the very end and this is vitally important especially for a comedy.
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