For most people, getting away from the workplace for a short while is the number one reason for going on holiday. We cancel our appointments, change out email notifications to the "out of office" setting and flee the building the moment we can. But what happens when your work follows you away regardless? It's a nightmare holiday scenario, destroying any chance of peace and tranquility. Richard Dreyfuss stars as Dr. Leo Marvin in What About Bob?, Frank Oz's wonderful comedy in which an excellent psychiatrist gets more than he bargains for when he takes on Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) as his patient shortly before setting off for a summer vacation by the sea. Bob, thoroughly pleased with the way his sessions are going, decides to track him down to the seaside. As Bob increasingly ingratiates himself into the Marvin household, Leo's patience towards his patient reaches breaking point. The more sensitive members of the audience might have taken objection to the use of mental illness as a source of comedy, but for the rest of us What About Bob? is a hilarious example of 90s comedy at its best. Murray and Dreyfuss bounce off one another in every scene, their mismatched double act perfectly pitched.
