Director
Howard Zieff
Composer
David McHugh
Cast
Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle
Edition 1989
113'
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1989
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Crime, Comedy, Thriller
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Dialogue:
English
It is hard not to enjoy pictures about oddballs and eccentrics whose visual and verbal malapropisms seem to lend themselves to the medium. Howard Zieff's Dream Team is no less enjoyable because its eccentrics are refugees from a sanatorium. Cinematic cousins to the heroes of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, the dreamteam consists of four New Jersey mental patients who are treated to a New York City field trip by their psychiatrist. Though they are viewed by other doctors as incurable, their doctor feels that a trip to Yankee Stadium will at least give them some happy memories. Unfortunately, when one of them, Albert, has to make a lavatory stop, the doctor is beaten and left unconscious by some crooked cops and the team must fend for themselves. During the next two days each man has to face up to a bit of sanity in order to survive ... (Screen International 15.4.89)
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Credits
Directors
Howard Zieff
Composers
David McHugh
Cast
Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle
Director of Photography
Adam Holender
Editors
C. Timothy O'Meara
Producers
Christopher W. Knight
More info
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Year
1989