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Mental Minor 
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Couch Trip, The (1988) |
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Dan Ackroyd
plays a character who has committed some |
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kind of
computer fraud and has been sent to Cicero County |
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Mental
Correctional Institute. |
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When the
resident psychiatrist is interviewing him and leaves |
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the room
Ackroyd answers the phone. The call is from the |
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agent of a
Beverly Hills doctor who a radio show. The doctor |
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has to go
away and needs a replacement. One, he hopes, so |
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bad his
audience will be glad on his return. |
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But Ackroyd
accepts the job as though he were the |
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psychiatrist, escapes from the institute. Of course |
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impersonating the Cicero psychiatrist he is a huge success
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on the radio
show. This he achieves by speaking straight and |
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The film is
one of many in which the 'insane' are more sane |
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This isn't a
remarkable film but then it is funny and the |
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performances
from Ackroyd and Grodin are good. |
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If the film
is 'worth' anything it is in satirising the pomposity |
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and
emptiness of some psychiatrists. |
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Notes
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