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The Dream Team (1989)

PG-1304/07/1989Comedy, Crime, Thriller1h 53m
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This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.

Overview

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Michael Keaton

    Billy Caufield

  2. Cast 1

    Christopher Lloyd

    Henry Sikorsky

  3. Cast 1

    Peter Boyle

    Jack McDermott

  4. Cast 1

    Stephen Furst

    Albert Ianuzzi

  5. Cast 1

    Dennis Boutsikaris

    Dr. Weitzman

  6. Cast 1

    Lorraine Bracco

    Riley

  7. Cast 1

    Milo O’Shea

    Dr. Newald

  8. Cast 1

    Philip Bosco

    O'Malley

  9. Cast 1

    James Remar

    Gianelli

"The Dream Team" is a very entertaining and well paced comedy throughout until the very end. It gets lots of mileage out of a simple central idea and the idea itself seems to have been inspired by the fishing trip episode in Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and in this instance, as with the 1962 novel, it is an authorised outing fully sanctioned - albeit reluctantly - by the senior staff at the Cedarbrook Psychiatric Hospital. This film could have been nothing more than a shallow comedy featuring an intriguing central idea whose potential is never fully realised or developed upon,...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$14,000,000.00

Revenue $28,890,240.00

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