The Dream Team

1989

PG-13

1h 53m

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6.2/10

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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

Writers

David Loucka(writer by)

Jon Connolly(writer by)

Stars

Michael Keaton

Christopher Lloyd

Peter Boyle

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Billy Caufield

Henry Sikorsky

Jack McDermott

Albert Ianuzzi

Dr. Weitzman

Riley

Dr. Newald

O'Malley

Gianelli

Dr. Talmer

Dr. Verboven

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Bernie

Sgt. Vincente

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Dwight

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Directors

Howard Zieff

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David Loucka(writer by)

Jon Connolly(writer by)

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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.

kevin201907 Mar, 2025