Brain Donors (1992)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Dennis Dugan

Writers (WGA):

Pat Proft (screenplay)
George S. Kaufman (screenplay) (suggestion) ...

Release Date:

17 April 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

The producers of Airplane! and The Naked Gun invite you to a night of ballet. Fasten your seat belts.

Plot:

Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire...

Plot Keywords:

Stop Motion | Slapstick | Remake | Vaudeville | Beautiful Woman

Cast

John Turturro	...	Roland T. Flakfizer
Bob Nelson	...	Jacques
Mel Smith	...	Rocco Melonchek
George De La Pena	...	Roberto Volare
John Savident	...	Edmund Lazlo
Spike Alexander	...	Alan Grant
Juliana Donald	...	Lisa Le Baron (as Juli Donald)
Nancy Marchand	...	Lillian Oglethorpe
Teri Copley	...	Tina
Irene Olga López	...	Pedestrian
Warren Thomas	...	Paramedic
Dick Monday	...	Rob
Katherine Heard	...	Laura
Michael Ciotti	...	Kid
Gary Grossman	...	Father

Also Known As:

Lame Ducks

Runtime:

Spain:76 min | USA:80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Germany:6 | Canada:PG | UK:PG | USA:PG

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Although is not said in the official description of the movie, the screenplay and characters are based on the classic comedy masterpiece by the Marx Brothers - A Night at the Opera (1935).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Flakfizer and the guys are going to the hospital, as they leave the townhouse, Flakfizer is wearing a purple suit. As he exits the car at the hospital, his suit is black/gray, but as he walks into the hospital, the suit is purple again. This has been fixed on the DVD.

Quotes:

Roland T. Flakfizer: Some day you'll have my children. In fact, they're in the car if you want them.

Movie Connections:

Remake of A Night at the Opera (1935)

Soundtrack:

LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF

One of the funniest, yet most under-rated comedies ever made

This movie is funny, not ha ha funny, but stop breathing turn blue fall on the floor pass out funny.

Whether you find it funny at all will depend on one thing, do you think that a Marx Brothers style movie could be made now? If you don't think so or hate the Marxes then don't bother seeing it, you'll be wasting your time. However, if you like comedy that's both clever and stupid in the classic Marx sort of way, see this film.

The plot has Groucho, er...John Turturro playing a shyster lawyer who is trying to bilk a rich widow of her money by fronting for a ballet. Add to the madness Mel Smith in the Chico role and the incredibly under rated Bob Nelson in a role Harpo would have played if he talked. Its all madness, mis-representation and misdirection that ends up on stage in a ballet only an insane person could have come up with (its at this point breathing becomes optional).

See this movie.

Its simply one of the greatest screen comedies, even though almost no one has seen it.

10 out of 10.