Mumford (film)

Mumford is a 1999 American comedydrama film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. It is set in a small town where a new psychologist Loren Dean gives offbeat advice to the neurotic residents. Both the psychologist and the town are named Mumford, a coincidence that eventually figures in the plot. The film costars Hope Davis, Jason Lee, Alfre Woodard, Mary McDonnell, Martin Short, David Paymer, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Ted Danson, and Zooey Deschanel in her film debut.

Soon he is treating a variety of conditions, ranging from the obsession of one man Pruitt Taylor Vince to erotic novels to an unhappily married woman Mary McDonnell and her compulsive shopping. Mumford befriends a billionaire computer mogul Jason Lee and a cafe waitress Alfre Woodard and attempts to play matchmaker. He also begins to fall for a patient Hope Davis who suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome.Together with an attorney Martin Short, a patient Mumford had rejected because of his narcissism, the rival therapists conspire to find skeletons in Mumfords closet, hoping to destroy his reputation. Skeletons galore are indeed there, as a confidante of Mumfords soon finds out. ........

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