What About Bob? - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[xpyneuusp]

The Doctor 1991

Jack McKee is a doctor with it all hes successful hes rich and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine hospitals and doctors from a patients perspective he realises that ...

The Doctor features psychological, uplifting, touching, sentimental and emotional style.

[tom]

Seven Pounds 2008

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

Seven Pounds features touching, sad, emotional, compassionate and sentimental style.

[MarcoTix]

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 1975

While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital implacable rabble-rouser Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse Mildred Ratched.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest features psychological, tragicomedy, dramatic, uplifting and serious style.

[harry]

Fran Brill, who played Leo's sister, Lily, was one of the film's director Frank Oz's fellow Muppeteers on "Sesame Street".

[miriam]

At 26, Kathryn Erbe played Anna Marvin, the teenage daughter of Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss).

[nora]

Director Frank Oz wanted Patrick Stewart to play Dr. Leo Marvin, which was eventually played by Richard Dreyfuss.

[alyssa]

Robin Williams was the first choice for the role of Bob Wiley, as he had been nominated for an Oscar for his performance in screenwriter Tom Schulman's Dead Poets Society (1989), also distributed by Touchstone Pictures. However, at the time filming was to begin, Williams had just finished filming The Fisher King (1991) and was forced to turn down the role. Williams and Charlie Korsmo, who plays Richard Dreyfuss's son in this movie, would go on to star in Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991).

[oscar]

When Kathryn Erbe's character Anna talks about going sailing, she says she is going on her friend, "George Stark's boat." George Stark is the evil alter ego in the 1989 Stephen King novel "The Dark Half."

[marc]

When Fay Marvin was tucking in Bob and her son Sigmund on the night of the Bob sleepover, she holds the sheets up to allow Bob to climb into his bed. Bill Murray improvises in the scene and crawls under the sheets head first, cracking up Julie Hagerty.

[francisco]

Eddie Murphy was considered for the role of Bob Wiley.

[lena]

Dr. Marvin drives a, 1979 Jeep Wagoneer Limited [SJ].

[steve]

For the scene in which Bob accidentally blows the house up, producers used a 3/4-sized model replica of the actual house that they detonated on a nearby lot.

[albert]

According to "Variety", "Richard Dreyfuss generally repeats the role he played in Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)", which was also produced by the Touchstone Pictures division of Walt Disney Studios.

[javier]

Dr. Leo Marvin is a psychiatrist whose childrens' names are "Anna" and "Sigmund". They are named respectively after the famous psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his daughter, child psychologist Anna Freud.

[willard]

Producer Laura Ziskin recalled having a disagreement with Bill Murray which led to her getting tossed into a lake by him. She confirmed in 2003, "Bill also threatened to throw me across the parking lot and then broke my sunglasses and threw them across the parking lot. I was furious and outraged at the time, but having produced a dozen movies, I can safely say it is not common behavior."

[richard]

The 19th ranked box-office hit of 1991 in the U.S..

[aaron]

The film's closing epilogue states: "Bob went back to school and became a psychologist. He then wrote a best seller: 'DEATH THERAPY'. Leo is suing him for the rights". Years later, Richard Dreyfuss (I) would sue Walt Disney Pictures over the picture's profit participation auditing.

[gabriel]

The two buildings shown when Bob arrives at the lake from New York are in Moneta, VA, near Smith Mountain Lake. The blue building really was an antique shop and coffee shop, rented and converted to the general store for filming.The red building used as the bus station in the movie is in real life a produce warehouse called Moneta Produce.

[ethel]

The scenes in downtown Lake Winnipesaukee were filmed along Old Moneta Road in Moneta, Virginia. That part of town has long been abandoned and is now completely unrecognizable.

[russell]

The vacation house where this was filmed was actually in Virginia on Smith Mountain Lake.