Mumford

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 Delbanco (David Paymer), who is quickly losing business to Mumford. So Ernest starts asking questions: who is this Mumford, and just what are his qualifications? Mumford’s supporting cast includes Ted Danson, Martin Short, Alfre Woodard, Hope Davis, Jason Lee, and Pruitt Taylor Vince., Comedy drama in which a mysterious man called Mumford arrives in a town of the same name, sets himself up as a psychologist and begins dispensing down-to-earth, specific advice. This changes the lives of many of the townspeople, but the resident psychologist finds he is losing business and begins to question the newcomer’s past., Loren Dean heads an ensemble cast that includes Alfre Woodard and Ted Danson, in Lawrence Kasdan’s beguiling and gently satiric comedy. Dean plays an enigmatic man named Mumford who sets up shop as a psychologist in a town that’s also called Mumford. He quickly becomes the most trusted and popular man in town, but he’s harboring a secret. Martin Short, Hope Davis, Jason Lee., An enigmatic man with a secret moves to a small town and quickly becomes a popular psychologist who ingratiates himself with the locals., Loren Dean gives up his job with the IRS and moves to a small town, posing as a psychologist. His ability to listen soon makes him the only doc in town with patience for his patients.