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The Couch Trip

The Couch Trip

A comedy of truly loony proportions.

5.5 / 1019881h 37m

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.

Genre: Comedy

Status: Released

Director: Michael Ritchie

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Main Cast

Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd

John W. Burns, Jr.

Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

Donald Becker

Charles Grodin

Charles Grodin

George Matlin

Donna Dixon

Donna Dixon

Laura Rollins

Richard Romanus

Richard Romanus

Harvey Michaels

Mary Gross

Mary Gross

Vera Maitlin

David Clennon

David Clennon

Lawrence Baird

Arye Gross

Arye Gross

Perry Kovin

Victoria Jackson

Victoria Jackson

Robin

Michael DeLorenzo

Michael DeLorenzo

Lopez

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User Reviews

kevin2019

"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.