His dialogue, as written by Kasdan, is so circular and comforting that at times we almost feel we're on the couch ourselves. He rarely responds directly to anything. Instead, he has a kind of oblique conversational style. He angles off in new directions. He encourages lateral thinking.
People provide a lot of their own answers.
Sooner or later most everyone wanders across Doc Mumford's path. Some of these people find they are made for one another, and others find they are made for better things than they have permitted themselves to try. The film makes us feel good, and we bathe in it. There's no big climax or crisis, and we can see the secrets coming a mile away, but this isn't a plot movie anyway. It's a feeling movie, a mood movie, an evocation of the kind of interaction we sometimes hunger for.