Mean Season

WHAT ABOUT BOB?

Directed by Frank Oz

Screenplay by Tom Schulman

Into everybody's life someone like Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) is bound to fall. "Human Krazy Glue" is how Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), the fallee in this hilarious case, describes him. For Bob is a classically needy nerd. Having no life of his own, Bob is desperate to attach himself to someone else's existence and draw psychic sustenance from it in great, draining gulps.

What better candidate than his newfound shrink? Leo seems to have everything, most especially an ego as massive as Bob's is minuscule. Looks like he ought...