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The Couch Trip

"A comedy of truly loony proportions."

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

Top 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

Overview

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

Rating

5.5 / 10
117 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • kevin2019
    kevin2019
    10 Feb 28, 2024

    "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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