Brain Donors (1992)
Actors:
John Savident (actor),
Eddie Griffin (actor),
Pat Proft (writer),
John Turturro (actor),
David Zucker (producer),
Jeffrey D. Stevens (miscellaneous crew),
Billy Beck (actor),
Mel Smith (actor),
George S. Kaufman (writer),
Dennis Dugan (director),
James Kevin McGuinness (writer),
Thomas Mikal Ford (actor),
Nancy Marchand (actress),
Deborah Simmrin (miscellaneous crew),
Irene Olga López (actress),
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. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.
Keywords: reference-to-the-marx-brothers, remake, slapstick, social-climber, stop-motion, vaudeville
Genres:
Comedy,
Taglines: The producers of Airplane! and The Naked Gun invite you to a night of ballet. Fasten your seat belts. Three bozos. One ballet company. Tutu many laughs! In the tradition of Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges, and the Reagan Administration.
Quotes:
Roland T. Flakfizer: And that spells cash with a capital...::Jacques: K!::Roland T. Flakfizer: You should go back to school.::Jacques: I hated teaching.
[Wondering where Flakfizer has hidden his lover]::Lazlo: Ah! Your suite!::Roland T. Flakfizer: You're pretty terrific yourself.
Jacques: Are you Roland T. Flakfizer?::Flakfizer: That all depends. Do I owe you money?::Jacques: No.::Flakfizer: In a drunken stupor, did I promise to marry you?::Jacques: No.::Flakfizer: Then I'm your man!
Flakfizer: Let's step outside and settle this like men!::Lazlo: We are outside.::Flakfizer: OK, let's step inside and settle it like women.
Roland T. Flakfizer: Money's no object! It isn't mine!
Roland T. Flakfizer: I didn't know the meaning of the word "no," but he had it down pretty good.
Roland T. Flakfizer: Some day you'll have my children. In fact, they're in the car if you want them.
Roland T. Flakfizer: If there's anything I can ever do for you... forget it, because I don't do those kinds of things.
Rocco Melonchek: You're lying.::Roland T. Flakfizer: Of course I am, but hear me out!
Roland T. Flakfizer: Please, call me what everyone else calls me: "Your Royal Sex Machine."