The Couch Trip

About The Couch Trip

The escaped mental patient and delinquent John W. Burns Jr.

The Couch Trip is a 1988 comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie. At 97 minutes long, it arrived in January 1988.

The film is filed under con man, false identity, charisma, and faked insanity.

Dan Aykroyd stars as John W. Burns, Jr., Walter Matthau as Donald Becker, Charles Grodin as George Matlin, and Donna Dixon as Laura Rollins. The screenplay is by Steven Kampmann and William Porter. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV in the United States.

TMDB voters put it at 5.5 out of 10 across 121 votes and it carries a R rating.