What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film directed by Frank Oz, and starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray plays Bob Wiley, a multiphobic psychiatric patient who follows his successful and egotistical psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin on vacation. When the unstable Bob befriends the other members of Marvin's family, it pushes the doctor over the edge. This film is number 43 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". The film is remade into the Tamil film "Thenali". The Hindi film Deewana Mastana is also a version of What About Bob? Bob Wiley is a good-natured man who suffers from multiple phobias.... He feels good about the results of an initial session with Dr. Leo Marvin , a New York psychiatrist with a huge ego, but is immediately left on his own with a copy of Leo’s new book, Baby Steps, when the doctor goes on vacation to Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. Unable to cope, Bob follows Leo to his vacation home, where Bob’s stay in town is facilitated by the Guttmans , a couple who hold a grudge against Leo because he purchased the home they had been saving to buy.
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| Release date: | May 17, 1991 |
| Directed by: | Frank Oz |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 99 Minutes |
| Producer: | Laura Ziskin, Bernard Williams |
| Editor: | Anne V. Coates |
| Music by: | Miles Goodman |
| Cinematography: | Michael Ballhaus |
| Screenplay by: | Alvin Sargent, Laura Ziskin, Tom Schulman |
| Estimated budget: | $35,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |