Billy Caufield
Michael Keaton
Billy Caufield
The Dream Team
“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.”
6.2
1989
1h 53m
ComedyCrimeThriller
Director: Howard Zieff
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.
Trailer
The Dream Team ≣ 1989 ≣ Trailer
Cast
Henry Sikorsky
Christopher Lloyd
Henry Sikorsky
Jack McDermott
Peter Boyle
Jack McDermott
Albert Ianuzzi
Stephen Furst
Albert Ianuzzi
Dr. Weitzman
Dennis Boutsikaris
Dr. Weitzman
Riley
Lorraine Bracco
Riley
Dr. Newald
Milo O'Shea
Dr. Newald
O'Malley
Philip Bosco
O'Malley
Gianelli
James Remar
Gianelli
Dr. Talmer
Jack Gilpin
Dr. Talmer
Dr. Verboven
MacIntyre Dixon
Dr. Verboven
Ed
Michael Lembeck
Ed
Reviews
kevin2019
"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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