What About Bob was a great comedic movie of a dysfunctional and inappropriate patient-psychiatrist relationship. The movie included a large chain of events having one thing leading to another. Bob Wiley, the main character, is a patient of Dr. Leo Marvin. Bob has many phobias and disorders that cause him to constantly need an uptight Dr. Marvin. The movie starts out with another psychiatrist on the phone with Dr. Marvin to hand over his patient, Bob. After the deed was done, Dr. Marvin’s colleague had said that he was finally free. But free from what? What kind of patient had Dr. Marvin been given? Right as Dr. Marvin had agreed to treat Bob, Bob had showed up at his office. Bob explains his problems and Dr. Marvin prescribes to him his book, Baby Steps. Dr. Marvin leaves for vacation later that day which worries Bob a lot. Because Bob is a worrisome man, he is always in need of his psychiatrist. So he decides to find out where Dr. Marvin goes on vacation and him and his goldfish …show more content…
A thunderstorm then rolls in forcing Bob to spend the night. Because the car is at the marina, Dr. Marvin is not able to drive Bob home either. Dr. Marvin, now very annoyed, wants Bob out of the house by 6:30, as Good Morning America is arriving at 7 to interview him. The next morning comes and Bob is still at the house as Good Morning America shows up early. The crew insists that Bob goes on the show as well. During the interview, Dr. Marvin is very tense and nervous but Bob steals the spotlight. He speaks greatly of Dr. Marvin and his book. Dr. Marvin is now done with Bob and wants nothing to do with him. He takes Bob to an institution but Bob is later released because he proves to the staff that he is sane. Dr. Marvin comes to drive Bob home but is so annoyed that he leaves Bob in the middle of nowhere. Dr. Marvin gets pulled over and sees Bob getting a ride back to the
Once they paid for the necessities they were back on the road. Bill realize he didn’t pay for the can of tuna and notice a sheriff car following them. The lights went off and the sheriff pulled them over. They were taking to the station for questioning of a murder. The whole time while being questioned, they both thought they were be accused of shoplifting. Once they realized what was happening, that’s when Bill’s cousin came to defend them.
Through a few different phone calls and some schematics (like when Bob faked his death and acted as a Private I) Bob gets Leo's vacation address and the next moment he's in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. Standing in the middle of the street Bob shouts until he sees Leo. Annoyed and disturbed, Leo agrees to meet with him under one prerequisite; If they meet Bob must promise to go back to New York the following day. Waiting to meet with Leo, Bob becomes familiar with the owners of the diner who happen to hate Leo Marvin for stealing their dream home. The envious couple takes Bob to Leo's home and he arrives at the back door. Baffled, Leo tried to put things into perspective for Bob by writing him a perscription that reads "take a vacation from ...
Crooks has his own room because he is black and can’t go into the bunkhouse. Lennie came into his room because he needed someone to talk to due to all the other guys going into town. Candy came looking for Lennie in crooks room to discuss the dream. Crooks heard the conversation and wants in on the dream as well. Curley’s wife comes in the room because she is lonely, she discovers Lennie broke Curley’s hand and said he deserved it. The guys come back from town, George discovers Lennie in crooks room, crooks tells the guys he was just kidding and no longer wants in because he feels not good enough.
Doc is a middle-aged man who begins to experience great discontent and tries to understand life's purposes. In addition, Doc is struggling with writing an informative paper about marine biology. The people of the town see his discontent, so they try to devise plans to make Doc happier, the way he used to be before the war. Doc's main interest is Marine Biology, which is his occupation, so he decides to take a trip to La Jolla in order to search for octopi and have time to think. Upon returning, he meets a new girl named Suzy.
When George and Lennie arrive at the work site, they meet an old swamper by the name of Candy. With Candy is his stinky, old dog that he cannot b...
Bob charms Dr. Marvin’s family with his witty personality and humor. To the family, Bob is fun, kind and sensitive, but Dr. Marvin sees him as a crazy man. Bob bonds with Dr. Marvin’s daughter over sailing, teaches Dr. Marvin’s son to dive and compliments Dr. Marvin’s wife. Dr. Marvin feels like he is losing his family to Bob. He tries to get rid of Bob, but he keeps returning back to the house. Bob is given a
On the first week at Grandma’s, a man named Shotgun Cheatman died. Everyone in the town went to the funeral because he was the well known assistant to the Mayor. The funeral was held in Grandma’s house and a creepy thing happened that night when Tom the cat crawled inside the casket. The next day, Joey, Mary Alice and Grandma left the house and walked across fields of tall grass and “cow pies aplenty” to Salt Creek to go fishing. They found an old wooden boat and Grandma rowed the boat out into the creek. While on their fishing adventure, they encountered a cottonmouth snake that fell into the boat and a party of drunken men on land dancing in their underwear.
... have a sexual encounter before Charlie has thoughts of his Aunt touching him. He is scared so he leaves. Charlie has a serious break down before his parents find him and he is taken to a mental facility. The doctors reveal that he was molested, something they assumed he made up as a child. He is released after two months and comes to terms with his horrible past. This ends his letters.
Lenny was a mentally retarded guy that had a fascination with mice. Lenny and George had a dream of having their own farm with many animals. Lenny especially wanted mice in his farm. But they had to work on farms in order to get money to fulfill their dreams. But every time that they would work on a farm Lenny would find a way to get them fired. When they got to work on this farm with many people they met a guy that had the same dream as Lenny and George. There was a woman who was Curly's wife. She would try to seduce Lenny into a relationship but Lenny wasn't very conscious of it. Curly's wife began to talk to Lenny and then Lenny was petting her hair and with his enormous strength broke her neck. Lenny was told by George that if he ever got into any trouble then he should meet him in safe place.George found Lenny there and shot him in the back of the head.
The thunder and lightning were getting bigger and bigger in the sky. He heard a window crash underneath him and saw kids running around on the wet concrete. “Get back into your houses and stay there until this is all over. I don’t want anybody to get hurt.”
Tub is not truthful regarding a diet that he claims to be following. He tells Kenny and Frank he has a gland problem. He not only does not have a problem, he devours everything secretively. Frank keeps an affair with his babysitter from Tub and his wife. There are several problems with Frank’s secret. Several married couples consider their spouse to be their best friend. He did not need to have the affair in the first place. However, keeping this secret hurts Tub, Frank’s wife, and the babysitter. Kenny keeps a dangerous secret that the elderly man at the farmhouse asked him to execute his dog. As a result, it backfires, and he is shot. These characters do not seem to understand the importance of
Andy goes to psychologist, Dr. Carrothers, to discuss his depression about Rob's death. He does not think he needs to be there because he is fine in school and he is fine at home. Andy talks about why the accident is his fault. He realizes he needs help with his depression and wants to come back for another visit to discuss what is going...
Living with Bob would be quite the experience because the movie makes him seem not so bad, but it would be a lot harder to live with a person who has a more realistic type of anxiety disorder. They would always be afraid to leave the house or just do normal, natural everyday things. Although, it also could be good because the house would probably be spick and span. Overall, I thought What About Bob? was perfectly amusing, and I would recommend it to almost anyone. It was also fairly clean, which made it a great, family friendly
He then sets him down on a table and the scientists start observing him. He then gets cut in half and one of his halfs gets cut up into little pieces and is spread into lots of groups. He then sees his half get mixed together with more ingredients and finds out that it is being made into depression pills. He then gets put on a cart and is moved to a shop at the front of a lab. He begins to feel sad again because he feels that his ride is over and that he is just going to just be looking at cars go by the highway and stay on this tray for the rest of his life. He then sees a nice sports car drive in the parking lot and sees a man exit the car wearing a nice black suit. The man enters the store and picks up the piece of lithium and goes to pay the cashier for the piece of lithium. He then starts getting excited again and prepares for another
After Nick left the rooming house, Ole started to move around a little, then he got up. Ole went down to the garage to get some tools to make a snare trap. Meanwhile, Al and Max took a little break before they went to kill Ole. Max turned around and talked to Al, " Eh Al, I think that kid name Nick, we saw at the diner, was quite a kid. he is brave enough to take note of what happened back at the diner." said Max. Al look at Max and pause for a second, "He did ? I did not notice that at all" said AL, "If I see that kid again, I will send him down to hell! So both, him and the swede can keep each other company in Hell." said Max. Al look at the town clock as he laughed at Max remarks at the sametime. At midnight, Max and Al arrived at the rooming house. While the two killers were trying to find an easy way to sneak in, Nick packed up all his lugages to get readt to flee, away from the town. Nick suddenly dropped his notebook, then he decided that he wanted to do one last favor for Ole. Nick will turn this notebook contains information about what happened at the diner to the police st...