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Mumford
Buena Vista Pictures

Mumford reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 62 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.7 out of 10
based on 33 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for sex-related images, language and drug content

Starring Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee, Alfre Woodard, and Mary McDonnel

Dr. Mumford (Dean) has a talent for listening. He's only been in town four months, but he's already the most popular psychologist around. He listens to his clients' problems, gets involved in their lives -- and helps them in unexpected ways. But the man who hears the secrets has the biggest secret of all. (Touchstone Pictures)


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Lawrence Kasden  
DIRECTED BY: Lawrence Kasden  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: April 18, 2000 
Video: April 18, 2000 
Theatrical: September 24, 1999 
RUNNING TIME: 118 minutes, Color / BW 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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100
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
So wonderfully odd, even spiritual, that audiences won't be able to do anything but smile.
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100
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Among the funniest and most satisfying films I've seen in years.
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91
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Turns the tricks of psychology into duplicitous high play.
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88
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A feeling movie, a mood movie, an evocation of the kind of interaction we sometimes hunger for.
88
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
A crowd-pleasing ensemble piece, whose story goes exactly where you want it to.
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80
Film.com Peter Brunette
It's witty, entertaining, often funny as hell and even, at times, surprisingly wise about the human condition.
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80
LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
How refreshing it is to see a studio picture where plot development is revealed not so much by grandiose action as by the small, interior shifts that are witnessed through a character's eyes.
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75
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
A flyweight, humongously entertaining ensemble number.
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75
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
On a direct line with the whimsical small-town comedies of the '40s and '50s.
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75
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Kasdan ends up with an intellectually dishonest movie about intellectual dishonesty.
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75
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Agreeably entertaining, peppered with rich laughs and very nice actorly touches.
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75
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
This eccentric fairy tale with the feel of "Our Town" has a number of remarkable performances.
75
Boston Globe Jay Carr
The performances are disarming and Mumford is the kind of comedy that grows on you if you give it a chance.
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75
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
This good-natured comedy serves up plenty of laughs while suggesting that the best experts in human psychology are plain old humans.
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70
Washington Post Desson Thomson
A sort of thinking-person's cornball movie.
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70
The New York Times Stephen Holden
At heart a Frank Capra-style social fable for the '90s.
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67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Low-voltage and forgettable.
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64
Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Despite impeccable performances, this is bloodless, ho-hum stuff.
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63
Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
Kasdan has assembled a stellar cast of supporting players to lend this low-key tale some interest.
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63
USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
Kasdan hasn't lost his touch at gathering terrific ensemble casts, although the performances are uneven.
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60
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Those who enjoy the old-fashioned Hollywood pleasure of seeing divergent threads neatly pulled together will be more than satisfied.
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60
Salon.com Laura Miller
Features one of the rare complex portraits of a therapist.
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60
Film.com John Hartl
Goes out of its way to suppress most natural dramatic conflict, so it's left to the actors to carry the day.
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60
Film.com Tom Keogh
All fleeting charm where it could have been one of the most memorable films of the decade.
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50
Village Voice J. Hoberman
Mumford is good for a few chuckles and not nearly as egregious or cloying as it might have been.
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50
Miami Herald Sara Wildberger
A little like a secular, more sophisticated "Touched by an Angel" episode.
50
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
I enjoyed this while it lasted, especially for the cast.
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40
Dallas Observer Bill Gallo
Comes straight out of the Forrest Gump School of Interpersonal Magic, and that's not necessarily a good thing.
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40
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Watching this string of sketches about small town wackos is like channel surfing a heavy sitcom zone.
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40
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Seems as though its reach is always exceeding its grasp...partly because Kasdan spreads himself a bit thin amongst the nine major characters he's working with.
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40
Variety Todd McCarthy
Kasdan's direction here is even less energized than his writing.
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30
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
A fine case ... but none weighty enough to keep this fluff from evaporating as you watch it.
25
TNT RoughCut Tom Cappello
If a good laugh is needed on the next trip to the theater, please avoid this quack.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Thomas S. gave it a 9:
Very clever and entertaining. Some of the therapy material is intelligent. Hope Davis is wonderful.

Marc D. gave it a 7:
A light, feel-good movie. Jason Lee is great in it, and Hope Davis does a fine job as well. Go NetFlix on it.

Ryan M. gave it a 9:
A warm, witty and fascinating film!

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