A 70's/80's movie about a psychologist/psychiatrist and his life

vegan_vicky

He is in his 40's/early 50's, His father is a famous psychologist who writes best sellers and scorns him. He has troubles with his wife (maybe divorced?). One of his patients is an old cab driver that started hallucinating while driving, but in the end (really small spoiler since it's a secondary story) it turns out that the new paint/cleaning material in his cab is causing this effect. I was almost sure that the cab driver is Walter Matthau,...

Originally asked by Nakamir on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

This sounds like the TV movie Private Sessions from 1985, which was basically an unpicked TV pilot about a psychotherapist (Mike Farrell) who visits his patients and gets involved in their lives. One of them is a seemingly sane cab driver who has auditory hallucinations played by Tom Bosley (from Happy Days , among other things), who does bear a slight resemblance to Walter Matthau. It also stars Kelly McGillis as a rich nymphomaniac. Here's the DVD cover:

Full answer by Walt: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/26219 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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