The Whoopee Boys (1986)

Two obnoxious and dim-witted misfits attempt to save a school for needy children by attempting to sneak into the wealthy high society of Palm Beach to get the money needed for their cause.

Director:

John Byrum

Writers:

Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai,

Stars:

Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez, Denholm Elliott

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael O'Keefe	...	Jake Bateman
Paul Rodriguez	...	Barney Benar
Denholm Elliott	...	Col. Phelps
Carole Shelley	...	Henrietta Phelps
Andy Bumatai	...	Roy Raja
Eddie Deezen	...	Eddie Lipschultz
Marsha Warfield	...	Officer White
Elizabeth Arlen	...	Shelley
Karen A. Smythe	...	Clorinda Antonucci
Joe Spinell	...	Guido Antonucci
Robert Gwaltney	...	Humping the Butler
Lucinda Jenney	...	Olivia
Dan O'Herlihy	...	Judge Sternhill
Stephen Davies	...	Strobe
Taylor Negron	...	Whitey

Storyline

Two dim-wited street pedlers, Jack and Barney, arrive in Palm Beach, Florida looking for a better and wealthy lifestyle when Jack falls for Olivia, a young heiress running a shelter for orphaned children which is threatened with forclosure. Jack, at Barney's insistance, enrolls both of them at a finishing school to learn the edicate of the upper classes in order to fit in and hope Oliva's uncle will approve of Jack wanting to marry her and help her obtain an inheretence to save the orphanage.

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Plot Keywords:

palm beach florida | high society | finishing school | wedding | costume ball | 

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Taglines:

Doing all the wrong things in all the wrong places.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 August 1986 (USA)

Also Known As:

Curso para Cavalheiros

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Box Office

Gross:

$444,746 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jack Nitzsche:  man who yells at Barney and Jack for being in the pool.

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Quotes

Barney: Who's this? Your son?
Adm. Storey: No, he's... uhhh
Mrs. Storey: He is my nephew.
Barney: Ohhh, your nephew. He looks Iranian to me. You know my sister, Maria, she married an Iranian guy. And they are hairy son of a bitches. You know they got hair on their chest, their backs, their butts. We're talking Winnie the Pooh. We're talking Chewbacca, you know the guy in Star Wars who goes AHHHH! AHHHH!

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Connections

References Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

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Soundtracks

"LA CUMPARSITA"
by Matos Rodriguez

User Reviews

Dumb and Dumber before it was fashionable

A great movie if you understand what you are getting into. Check your brain and all shreds of rational thinking at the door. The acting is over the top and the serious dialogue is completely unbelievable as there really is no true point to this movie. That is precisely why I love it.

Long before Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels made idiocy popular on the big screen with "Dumb and Dumber", two enterprising men, Paul Rodriguez and Michael O'Keefe, strove to make completely base humor acceptable to the American masses. They definitely succeeded. These two (and the able supporting cast) make what easily could have been a poor movie into something funny. One has to wonder exactly how much ad-libbing was going on in this one (at least on Rodriguez' part).

Don't miss the charm school scene with the wine tasting. The only other time I had fallen out of my chair laughing was when Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels were trying to douse the fire of the peppers in their hamburgers with ketchup and mustard. Those of you who have attentively observed both will understand what I mean.