The Dream Team

The Dream Team

1989-04-07 • 1h 53m • PG-13 •
Comedy Crime Thriller
6.2
User Score
236 votes

"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."

Overview

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.

Howard Zieff

Director

Jon Connolly

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Movie Details

Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$14,000,000

Revenue

$28,890,240

Runtime

1h 53m

Release Date

1989-04-07

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Reviews

kevin2019

kevin2019

2025-03-07T01:24:16.806Z

"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.