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.
1989 | 113m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Howard Zieff |
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| Writer: | David Loucka, Jon Connolly |
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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. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 07, 1989 |
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| Director: | Howard Zieff |
| Writer: | David Loucka, Jon Connolly |
| Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Thriller |
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| Production Companies | Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $28,890,240
Budget: $14,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jul 30, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Michael Keaton | Billy Caufield |
| Christopher Lloyd | Henry Sikorsky |
| Peter Boyle | Jack McDermott |
| Stephen Furst | Albert Ianuzzi |
| Dennis Boutsikaris | Dr. Weitzman |
| Lorraine Bracco | Riley |
| Milo O’Shea | Dr. Newald |
| Philip Bosco | O'Malley |
| James Remar | Gianelli |
| Jack Gilpin | Dr. Talmer |
| MacIntyre Dixon | Dr. Verboven |
| Michael Lembeck | Ed |
| Bill Goffi | Singer / Accordionist |
| Jack Duffy | Bernie |
| Brad Sullivan | Sgt. Vincente |
| Larry Pine | Canning |
| Ron James | Dwight |
| Jihmi Kennedy | Tow Man |
| Freda Foh Shen | TV Newscaster |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ilene Starger | Casting |
| Adam Holender | Director of Photography |
| David McHugh | Original Music Composer |
| David Loucka | Writer |
| Jon Connolly | Writer |
| Carroll Timothy O'Meara | Editor |
| Roy Farfel | Stunts |
| Howard Zieff | Director |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Joseph M. Caracciolo | Executive Producer |
| David Loucka | Co-Producer |
| Jon Connolly | Co-Producer |
| Michael Sheehy | Associate Producer |
| Christopher W. Knight | Producer |
| Terry Spazek | Supervising Producer |
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"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.