The Dream Team (film)
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| The Dream Team | |
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| Directed by | Howard Zieff |
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| Produced by | Christopher W. Knight |
| Written by | Jon Connolly David Loucka |
| Starring | Michael Keaton Christopher Lloyd Peter Boyle Stephen Furst James Remar |
| Music by | David McHugh |
| Cinematography | Adam Holender |
| Editing by | Carroll Timothy O'Meara |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  April 7, 1989 |
| Running time | 113 min. |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
The Dream Team is a 1989 comedy film starring Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst and James Remar.
[edit] Plot
Dr. Weitzman (Dennis Boutsikaris) is a psychologist working in a sanitarium in New Jersey. His primary patients are Billy, Henry, Jack and Albert. Billy (Keaton) is the most normal of the group and their unofficial leader, though he is a pathological liar with delusions of grandeur. He also seems to be a rage-a-holic. Henry (Lloyd) is obsessive/compulsive and he has deluded himself into thinking he is one of the doctors at the hospital, often walking around with a clipboard, lab coat and stethoscope. Jack (Boyle) is a former ad executive who seems to believe he is Jesus Christ. Finally, Albert (Furst) is a man-child who only says things that he hears during baseball games, particularly from former ball player and commentator Phil Rizzuto. Convinced that his patients need some fresh air and some time away from the sanitarium, Dr. Weitzman persuades the administration to allow him to take them to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium. Unfortunately, he accidentally stumbles across two crooked cops murdering another officer. The doctor then gets knocked unconscious trying to get away and is put in the hospital. The group is now stranded in New York City, forced to cope with a place which is often more bizarre than their sanitarium. One of the both comic and serious plot twists is that the inmates have to listen to Albert's baseball jargon in order to get clues as to what happened to Dr. Weitzman, because he is the only one who witnessed it (he is just afraid to say it because of his catatonic condition). Two other running gags throughout the film are: Henry's (Lloyd's) threat to report psychologically disturbing behavior of the other patients (never realizing his own problems until near the end); and Billy's (Keaton's) violent, unpredictable but ultimately harmless behavior in several different scenarios.
After Dr. Weitzman's beating and coma, it is up to the patients to save their doctor from being murdered by the crooked cops. They end up having to both use and overcome their delusions and disorders in order to save the only man who ever tried to help them, with both the police and the killers looking for them. Throughout the film there are minor scenes showing the interaction between the two crooked police officers (Philip Bosco and James Remar) and what their plans are in framing the patients for the murder of Officer Alvarez earlier in the film.
[edit] Cast
- Michael Keaton as Billy Caufield
- Christopher Lloyd as Henry Sikorsky
- Peter Boyle as Jack McDermott
- Stephen Furst as Albert Ianuzzi
- Dennis Boutsikaris as Dr. Weitzman
- Lorraine Bracco as Riley
- Milo O'Shea as Dr. Newald
- Philip Bosco as O'Malley
- James Remar as Gianelli
- Michael Lembeck as Ed, Riley's boyfriend
- Jack Duffy as Bernie
- Larry Pine as Canning
- Ted Simonett as a yuppie
- John Stocker as Murray
- Lizbeth MacKay as Henry's wife
- Ron James as Dwight
- Freda Foh Shen as a TV newscaster
- Donna Hanover as a field reporter
- Jihmi Kennedy as the tow truck driver
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