What About Bob?
Bill Murray made What About Bob? in 1991, two years after Ghostbusters II and two years before Groundhog Day. Richard Dreyfus, his co-star, was one year on from Postcards from the Edge and on a run including Lost in Yonkers (1993) and Mr Holland’s Opus (1995). Director Frank Oz’s previous two movies had been Little Shop of Horrors and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. They’re not all classics but they’re at least all decent movies. And yet What About Bob? didn’t quite get the attention it deserved. A comedy with these names attached might have expected a review in the New York Times, for example. There wasn’t one. Nor did Roger Ebert, the US’s most … Read more
