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The Dream Team

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6.2/10 • 233

1989-04-071h 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.

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.

Directors
Howard Zieff
Writters
Jon Connolly, David Loucka
Editors
Jon Connolly, David Loucka, Carroll Timothy O'Meara

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Michael Keaton

    Michael Keaton

    Billy Caufield

  2. Christopher Lloyd

    Christopher Lloyd

    Henry Sikorsky

  3. Peter Boyle

    Peter Boyle

    Jack McDermott

  4. Stephen Furst

    Stephen Furst

    Albert Ianuzzi

  5. Dennis Boutsikaris

    Dennis Boutsikaris

    Dr. Weitzman

  6. Lorraine Bracco

    Lorraine Bracco

    Riley

  7. Milo O’Shea

    Milo O’Shea

    Dr. Newald

  8. Philip Bosco

    Philip Bosco

    O'Malley

  9. James Remar

    James Remar

    Gianelli

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kevin2019

Mar 7, 2025

8/10

"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, so it is refreshing to discover this film doesn't suffer that unfortunate fate and indeed the complete opposite is actually the case.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$14,000,000.00
Revenue
$28,890,240.00
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