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Johnny Dangerously (1984)

PG-13 | | Comedy, Crime | 21 December 1984 (USA)
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Set in the 1930s, 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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Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills. Written by Craig Clarke <clarkec@topaz.cqu.edu.au>

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1930s | medical bill | year 1935 | year 1910 | 1910s | See All (71) »

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Organized crime has never been so disorganized! See more »

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Comedy | Crime

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$9,000,000 (estimated)

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$17,124,395, 31 December 1985
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Trivia

WWE Manager Paul Heyman used to be called "Paul E. Dangerously" earlier in his career, because of his resemblance to Michael Keaton's character in this film. See more »

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Johnny's hair changes length when the Moronie robot arrives. See more »

Quotes

Mary-Margaret Catharine Dineen: [when Johnny walks on the floor while she is mopping it] Dirty Jew! Shanty nigger! White-trash bastard! Go ahead, walk all over the little people!
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Crazy Credits

After the opening credits, you see "1935" on the screen. A car in the near lane of the street drives behind it. Then, another car (in the far lane) runs into the number sitting on the road, and smashes it to pieces. See more »

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Referenced in Bob's Burgers: Bye Bye Boo Boo (2016) See more »

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Funny "hit and miss" comedy
29 October 2001 | by – See all my reviews

One of the first of the gangster spoof movies this is the story of Michael Keaton's Johnny Kelly sucked into Peter Boyle's New York gang before eventually leading it. This is confused by the fact that Johnny's brother (Griffin Dunne) is the DA seeking to put New York's crime lords away.

The film is silly from start to finish - the plot doesn't make sense and the characters are overblown, but that's the whole point - it's meant to be a spoof and it is. The jokes are quite hit-and-miss, but the majority hit and are funny, although you do need to be in the mood for it.

Michael Keaton is perfect in the lead role, clearly enjoying himself immensely and is on-form for the whole movie. The whole cast provide good support in a series of fun roles - Griffin Dunne is great as the DA, Danny DeVito top in a small role as the crooked DA (or host of game show "play ball"!). Richard Dimitri is hilarious as the gangster of unknown origin, guilty of murdering the english language (fargin' funny!), Peter Boyle is good as Johnny's boss, but Joe Piscopo is the best support as the gangster with attitude ("once").

The film is a fun throwback spoof. Every element of the film is exaggerated and the majority of it comes off well. Yes some jokes miss but they come so thick and fast that the next one is never far away.
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