Mumford (1999)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 77
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 34
Memorable moments are few and far between.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 8
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
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Cast
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Loren Dean
Mumford -
Hope Davis
Sofie Crisp -
Jason Lee
Skip Skipperton -
Alfre Woodard
Lily -
Mary McDonnell
Althea Brockett -
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Henry Follett -
Zooey Deschanel
Nessa Watkins -
Martin Short
Lionel Dillard -
David Paymer
Dr. Ernest Delbanco -
Jane Adams (II)
Dr. Phyllis Sheeler -
Dana Ivey
Mrs. Crisp -
Kevin Tighe
Mr. Crisp -
Ted Danson
Jeremy Brockett -
Jason Ritter
Martin Brockett -
Elisabeth Moss
Katie Brockett -
Robert Stack
himself -
Priscilla Barnes
Landlady -
Simon Helberg
College Roommate -
Kelly Monaco
Landlady's Daughter
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All Critics (94) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (35) | DVD (6)
It turns the tricks of psychology into duplicitous high play.
Top CriticImperfect.
Director Lawrence Kasdan's Mumford blends likable characters with a humorous, gentle look at small town life.
Neither funny, heart-warming nor star-powered enough to motivate the public to turn out in very large numbers.
The performances are disarming and Mumford is the kind of comedy that grows on you if you give it a chance.
This film is smart, but also entertaining -- made to go with popcorn, a cola and, well, Prozac.
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.
Audience Reviews for Mumford
Super Reviewer
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 Dr. Mumford. You may not have heard that name before, but he's in a bunch of movies, usually in those small character roles that are filled appropriately.
The story revolves around Mumford and his patients, how he gets by, and an eventual twist in the story.
The film was written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, who among other things, was a screenwriter for two Star Wars films, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and a number of other films usually very character based. The man knows what he is doing.
The movie features an ensemble cast that includes the always reliable Jason Lee, Ted Danson, Martin Short, David Paymer, Alfre Woodward, Hope Davis, and Zooey Deschanel.
Each of these people all have there own things going on, but they are all entertaining characters. Lee's character for example is a normal guy who created a piece of technology and is now one of the richest guys in the country. But, he's lonely and has his own way of trying to please himself.
This whole movie is very simple, but funny, and likable, like the town that they all live in.
Skip Skipperton: Do you know how I spend my every single solitary moment?
Dr. Mumford: Jerking off?
Skip Skipperton: No, that's a good guess though!
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