Movies like What About Bob?

If you like "What About Bob?" you are looking for funny, light and witty movies about / with mental illness, psychiatrist, vacation, therapy, obsession, yuppie and mother daughter relationship themes of Comedy genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
What About Bob? (1991)
 7.0
 74K
What About Bob? (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
Style: funny, light, witty, not serious, psychological, entertaining, dark comedy, laugh out loud, clever, talky ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: mental illness, psychiatrist, vacation, therapy, obsession, yuppie, mother daughter relationship, phobia, family vacation, psychology, sarcasm, psychiatry, nothing goes right, disorder, goofy hero, psychotherapist, mental patient, father daughter relationship, elevator, bomb, father son relationship, obsessive compulsive disorder, husband wife relationship, goldfish, doctor patient relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new hampshire, usa
Keyword: doctors, buddy movie

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to What About Bob?

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and feel good films with plots about disorder, nothing goes right, silly humor, family relations, love and romance, father son relationship and husband wife relationship mostly in Comedy, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like What About Bob?: The Great Outdoors (1988), Anger Management (2003), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), Mousehunt (1997), Beyond Therapy (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
The Great Outdoors (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, cult classic, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: camp, family vacation, bear, wilderness, holiday, teenage girl, nothing goes right, family relations, youth, disorder, parents and children, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: minnesota, chicago, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Anger Management (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Buddy Rydell. But when Buddy steps up his aggressive ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, melancholic, hilarious ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, date night, teens
Plot: reluctant partners, bullying, therapist, rage, doctors and patients, twists and turns, life philosophy, psychiatrist, dark humor, irreverence, treatment, misfit partners ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, boston, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene ...
Style: humorous, funny, hilarious, not serious, slapstick ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: split personality, gross out humor, road trip, mental illness, breast feeding, stupidity, farce, stoner, sarcasm, chase, chases and races, on the run ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s, y2k ...
Place: rhode island, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but ...
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, christmas special, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly
Plot: christmas, holiday, parents and children, winter, christmas season, dysfunctional family, vacation, snow, family gatherings, xmas, culture clash, creativity ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
phobia movies
124
light movies
11020
psychology movies
2405
 6.5
 60K
Mousehunt (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of it's single, stubborn ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: mouse, nothing goes right, animal, family relations, inheritance, exterminator, house, factory, auction, hospital, disorder, steampunk ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Beyond Therapy (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: therapy, glbt, gay interest, psychiatrist, bisexual man, sexual relations, couples, power relations, gays and lesbians, love and romance, gender, doctors and patients ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 18K
Summer Rental (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, funny, intense ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids
Plot: sailing, summer vacation, underdog, screwball, rivalry, on the road, friendship, nothing goes right, love and romance, disorder, couples, air traffic controller ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 165K
Trading Places (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style: funny, hilarious, feel good, laugh out loud, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stock market, prostitute, switching roles, fish out of water, beggar, wrongful arrest, social satire, wager, rags to riches, poverty, investor, christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, arizona, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
Larger Than Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. Then one day, he receives a telegram that his circus clown father has passed away, and has left a ...
Style: light, funny, touching, feel good, road movie ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, rescue, on the road, animal, goofy hero, fish out of water, inheritance, hitchhiker, elephant, philosophy, wild animal, writers ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Don's Analyst (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family business" to his two idiot sons, they'd be dead in a minute. So he decides to go ...
Style: not serious, realistic, cynical, clever, humorous ...
Plot: kidnapping, psychology, silly humor, profanity, family relations, disorder, abduction, nothing goes right, misfit, down on your luck, missing person, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: fashion, teenager, mischievous children, coming of age, children, high school, babysitter, dysfunctional family, childhood, crime gone awry, twists and turns, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Anger Management (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie is a non-traditional therapist specializing in anger management. He has a successful private practice and he performs pro bono counseling for an inmate group at a state prison. Prior to his career as a therapist, he was a major league ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, hilarious ...
Plot: therapist, support group, anger management, sexual humor, rage, anger, silly humor, psychiatrist, disorder, doctors and patients, frustration, irony ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 53K
Vegas Vacation (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gambling, dysfunctional family, obsession, family relations, farce, road trip, nothing goes right, teenage life, parents and children, desert, vacation, chase ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, chicago, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.7
 259K
Airplane! (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Alcoholic pilot, Ted Striker has developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, but nevertheless boards a passenger jet in an attempt to woo back his stewardess girlfriend. Food poisoning decimates the passengers and crew, leaving it up to ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, slapstick, absurd ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids
Plot: airplane, airport, pilot, food poisoning, stewardess, passenger, aviation, absurd humor, air disaster, deadpan, fear of flying, disaster ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place: chicago, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Lost in America (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling ...
Style: road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: road trip, on the road, self discovery, motor home, fired from the job, marriage, couples, fish out of water, nothing goes right, cross country trip, married couple, promotion ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place: las vegas, arizona, nevada, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.3
 156K
Billy Madison (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that ...
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, talky, not serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, manly
Plot: graduation, elementary school, stupidity, teacher, bullying, teachers and students, high school, family business, mentor, happy ending, father son relationship, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Couch Trip (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: radio, psychiatrist, mental illness, teen angst, psychology, psychopath, impersonation, mental patient, silly humor, screwball, dark humor, disorder ...
Time: 80s
Place: london, europe, england, illinois, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Flirting with Disaster (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet ...
Style: road movie, black comedy, witty, funny, light ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, road trip, mistaken identity, adoption, on the road, farce, plot twist, family relations, visceral, crime gone awry, disorder, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new mexico, new york, michigan, san diego california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
 6.8
 21K
Toc Toc (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Toc Toc is a 2017 Spanish comedy film directed by Vicente Villanueva. The movie follows the adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD dated at the same time.
Style: psychological, light, humorous, entertaining, surreal ...
Plot: obsessive compulsive disorder, mental illness, socially awkward, psychiatrist, dyslexia, group therapy, obsession, illness, awkward situation, doctor, disorder, self acceptance ...
Time: 2010s
Place: spain, tokyo, istanbul turkey, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 24K
Meatballs (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, entertaining, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, coming of age, camp, teenager, youth, rivalry, mentor, friends, mischievous children, rich and poor, childhood, high school ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 5K
Brain Donors (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, unusual plot structure, surreal ...
Plot: idiot, stupidity, chase, firefly, crazy, dumb, police corruption, buddy, ballet, dishonesty, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.6
 37K
The Odd Couple (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondent, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is ...
Style: funny, atmospheric, hilarious, humorous, clever ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: friendship, buddy, buddies, friendship between men, friends who live together, bromance, poker, suicide attempt, stage play, eternal love, odd couple, old age ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Death at a Funeral (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, slapstick, tragicomedy ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, funeral, farce, dark humor, secret, sarcasm, gay, adultery, british, multiple storylines, family gatherings, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
 7.0
 4K
Real Life (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
Style: mockumentary, satirical, funny, humorous, witty ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, society, family relations, dark humor, lifestyle, family life, nothing goes right, disorder, fictional reality show, satire, husband wife relationship, showbiz ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Style: independent film, funny, humorous, witty, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, high school, adolescence, election, teenager, bullying, friendship, high school life, loser, nerd, youth, american football ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: idaho, america, usa, utah, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Style: humorous, semi serious, clever, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: unemployment, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, couple relations, down on your luck, unfulfillment, odd couple, family problems, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, brother brother relationship, neighbor ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Fierce Creatures (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most ...
Style: humorous, light, absurd, black comedy, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zoo, greed, farce, monty python, moral ambiguity, danger, obnoxious boss, father son relationship, workplace intrigue, businessman, sarcasm, marketing ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a ...
Style: parody, humorous, funny, melancholic, absurd ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: ghost, dysfunctional family, farce, radio, haunted house, family relations, couples, nothing goes right, love and romance, family problems, disorder, stalking ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.7
 6K
The Super (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option, which he accepts -- he must live in his rat-infested hell ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, entertaining, clever ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, stupidity, justice, misfit, self discovery, parents and children, african american, racial slur, court, hip hop, con men ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.4
 8K
Clifford (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford is fixated on the idea of visiting a famed theme park, and Martin, an ...
Style: humorous, realistic, feel good, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot: amusement park, prank, family relations, father son relationship, parents and children, disorder, fish out of water, nothing goes right, kids in trouble, eccentric family, mischievous children, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: hawaii, los angeles, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie