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Comedy, Crime 90 min PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes44%Metacritic54IMDb
Organized crime has never been this disorganized!
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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Comic, cool, nostalgic and effortless.
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Michael Keaton stars alongside heavyweight comedic actors like Marilu Henner, Joe Piscopo, Maureen Stapleton, and Peter Boyle in this send-up of gangster pictures. It is a really well-written satire that works on many different levels. The film was helmed by Amy Heckerling, the Director who brought us Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It features four Writers who all have backgrounds in television sitcoms, and that experience translates pretty well into the film's slapstick comedy. The film was released on December 21, 1984. Despite a terrific cast and great comedic elements, it flopped at the box office. However, Keaton’s run as a comedy act was far from over. The film is set in the 1930s and focuses on the young Johnny Kelly, a good-hearted kid who sells newspapers on the street corner and is stereotypical for the period. His mother is sick and has a multitude of ailments he cannot afford to treat. Through a series of events, Johnny finds himself accepting a job from a kind-hearted Mafia Boss who takes a shine to the youngster. Adopting the name Johnny Dangerously, he moves up the ranks of organized crime quickly and in no time becomes the Acting Boss of his criminal family. Complica
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