The couch trip [videorecording (DVD)] / an Orion Pictures release ; a Lawrence Gordon production ; a Michael Ritchie film ; screenplay by Steven Kampmann & Will Porter and Sean Stein ; produced by Lawrence Gordon ; directed by Michael Ritchie.
Title from disc surface. Dan Aykroyd, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon, Walter Matthau, David Clennon, Richard Romanus, Arye Gross. Based on a novel by Ken Kolb. Videodisc release of the 1988 motion picture. Special features: theatrical trailer.
Summary:
John Burns is an inmate of the Cicero County Correctional Facility for the Criminally Insane who intercepts a call to his psychiatrist and fraudulently accepts an offer to replace a stressed-out celebrity shrink as a host of a call-in radio show. He successfully escapes from the facility. In three days, the ratings skyrocket and he becomes a hot item.
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