The Couch Trip

1988

Comedy

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

"A comedy of truly loony proportions."

Rating

5.453
107 votes

Popularity

2.2568

Origin & Countries

US | en | United States of America

Production

Orion Pictures

Runtime

97 min.

Status

Released

Release: 1/15/1988

Credits

The Couch Trip

Michael RitchieDirector

The Couch Trip

Dan AykroydJohn W. Burns, Jr.

The Couch Trip

Walter MatthauDonald Becker

The Couch Trip

Charles GrodinGeorge Matlin

The Couch Trip

Donna DixonLaura Rollins

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Reviews

kevin2019

2/28/2024

10 / 10

"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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