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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DEAN,LOREN
EAN: 9786305801146
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788818295
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 18, 2000
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 23793
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 1999
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Product Description:
When a quirky former income tax investigator forges a PhD in psychology and takes up residence in the quiet town of Mumford, he falls in love with a beautiful patient, befriends a billionaire, and changes the lives of its lonely citizens.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-SEP-2002
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Loren Dean, a pleasant, attractive actor who seems to fall seamlessly into the background of every film he's in (Gattaca, Enemy of the State, Apollo 13), is perfectly cast in Mumford as a psychologist (named Mumford) who wanders into a small town (named Mumford) and suddenly fits seamlessly into everybody's rhythms and routines. Balancing a no-nonsense approach with a keen ability to listen sincerely to everyone's problems (with the exception of a snotty lawyer, played by Martin Short), he's a friendly, approachable blank slate for all those who come to visit him. And while he's tending to the shopaholic housewife (Mary McDonnell), the pulp-fantasizing pharmacist (Pruitt Taylor Vince), and the anorexic teenager (Zooey Deschanel), no one seems to give a second thought to who the man is behind the therapeutic face, not even his slightly sardonic neighbor (Alfre Woodard). It's not until he befriends a sweetly daft computer billionaire (Jason Lee) and starts treating a chronically fatigued young woman (Hope Davis) that his past--or rather, lack of one--starts coming into play, for it turns out that Mumford is not exactly who he says he is.
Less a mystery than an affectionate, perfectly modulated character study, Mumford easily represents writer-director Lawrence Kasdan's best work in a decade. While the plot seems whimsically Capra-esque and the dialogue sometimes stilted, it's so carefully and quietly directed that its good will and gentle spirit seem to float lightly off the screen. Kasdan hasn't created such engaging characters since The Big Chill, and all are winning without seeming artificial. Most amazing is Davis, who manages to invest a woman suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome with an inner glow that slowly becomes brighter as the film progresses. And Dean, as the enigmatic Mumford, may have finally found his breakthrough role; after years as an also-ran, he finally emerges as a solid, charming leading man. After Mumford, you won't forget his name, or face. --Mark Englehart
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A Feel Good Movie
Fun,funny,and happy with considerable irony. Consider this, the psychogist, he has no credentials, has the largest practise in Mumford and the town's only Psychiatrist, as a patient.
Rating: - Mumford - review
I enjoyed this movie, probably because I work in the field of Mental Health and could identify with a lot of the characters. Not such a stretch from reality, folks! But the movie was amusing and cute. Enjoyed it a lot.
Rating:  - Tasty Treat!....A Future Cult Classic....
I loved this little movie!
I liked Loren Dean...he's new to me...maybe he's from the Walken family? ie: I love Chris, Nick Cage, Jason Leigh, Depp. When I see them in the credits, I don't expect someone who'd only like John Wayne movies, to give it a thumbs up; but I'm pretty sure to give it two of 'em! This is one of those high-five, two-thumbs-up reviews. Those who don't like it, go see your own kind of "boxed-set" flick. As for the reviewer, who mentioned the flashing of boobs..huh? They'd probably try to shield their kid's eyes from Dolly Parton, in 9 to 5, or Betty Boop...c'mon!..instead of cartoon depictions, it was only human characterizations of the cartoon aspects of society. Truth in jest...irony...satire...Not blatant, but understated, for those of us who don't need to be hit over the head to have a point made. More's not enuff of these movies, for me. The whole family can watch and be entertained, at different levels. Smart Movie Making. Keep 'em coming.
Rating: - The Best Romantic Comedy... Ever
Mumford is one of those movies that no one really knows about, but everyone who's seen it loves it. It's a great romantic comedy full of bright, colorful- and very eccentric- characters. And it has one of the best twists in any movie I've seen in years.
Rating: - Great movie, easy purchase
I was trying to introduce my boyfriend to this movie, but Netflix sent a broken copy with a horrible skip right near the denouement - that horrible dvd kind of skip where it just jumps back to the beginning of the disk... Anyway, I got on Amazon and ordered the movie right then, and in a few days, it was ours. This is a great movie, and it is wonderful having Amazon there to save the day!
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