Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 77
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 34
Memorable moments are few and far between.
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 7
Memorable moments are few and far between.
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Lawrence Kasdan wrote and directed this comedy about a young psychologist named Mumford (Loren Dean), who arrives in a small town and sets up a practice. Mumford's style is short on analytic mumbo-jumbo and long on practical advice, and he soon finds that he has a long list of satisfied clients in his new home town, including many of the city's most prominent citizens. Mumford's advice also helps love bloom among the city's single residents. However, the city already had a psychologist, Ernest
Sep 24, 1999 Wide
Apr 17, 2001
Buena Vista Pictures
All Critics (94) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (35) | DVD (6)
Neither funny, heart-warming nor star-powered enough to motivate the public to turn out in very large numbers.
A likable semi-screwball comedy.
Mumford is a movie full of insightful moments, and some of them are even pure therapy.
Mumford is so carefully visualized in Lawrence Kasdan's new film that you'd sort of like to live there.
Great characters, but for older teens and up.
Mumford may look okay on your television some dead afternoon, but it isn't a movie.
... it ends up being little more than a mellow tour of quirky characters that are better as representatives of different personality types than actual characters we believe in.
Director Lawrence Kasdan's small-town fable beguiles.
A film without conviction, about a town full of people with problems without depth, aided by a guru without soul.
...comes through with an affable simplicity that is hard to resist.
This quiet charmer of a piece by Lawrence Kasdan posits, like the old Bacherach number suggests, " what the world needs now is love,sweet love". Loren Dean is perfectly cast as the unassuming and sedate soul prepared to hear whatever it is one might have to say ... only who is he exactly? Don't let this underrated
July 22, 2011Super Reviewer
Mrs. Crisp: What kind of doctor are you?Dr. Mumford: Ph.D. in psychology.Mrs. Crisp: Oh. Not a real doctor.Dr. Mumford: That's right, the fake kind.Here's a funny little comedy involving an easy to get along with shrink, living in a small town filled with a bunch of quirky people who like to talk to him.Loren Dean is
June 8, 2006Super Reviewer
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