The Couch Trip

Jan 15, 1988

1h 37m

★ 5.4

A comedy of truly loony proportions.

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Orion Pictures

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Cast

John W. Burns, Jr.

Dan Aykroyd

Donald Becker

Walter Matthau

George Matlin

Charles Grodin

Laura Rollins

Donna Dixon

Harvey Michaels

Richard Romanus

Vera Maitlin

Mary Gross

Lawrence Baird

David Clennon

Perry Kovin

Arye Gross

Robin

Victoria Jackson

Lopez

Michael DeLorenzo

Watkins

Mickey Jones

Unger

J.E. Freeman

Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.

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