Mumford

(Buena Vista)

A mystery man named Mumford (Loren Dean) wanders into a town named Mumford; and with his common sense, knack for listening, and blank smile, he sets many of the citizens' troubled psyches to rest. The facile approach to life's imponderables Lawrence Kasdan displayed in The Big Chill and Grand Canyon is on display again here, and despite the efforts of three malevolent females -- a rival psychologist, a termagant mother, and a draconian judge -- Mumford's brand of facile and unethical pop psychology prevails.