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.
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Title: The Whoopee Boys (1986)
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| Michael O'Keefe | ... | Jake Bateman | |
| Paul Rodriguez | ... | Barney Benar | |
| Denholm Elliott | ... | Col. Phelps | |
| Carole Shelley | ... | Henrietta Phelps | |
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Andy Bumatai | ... | Roy Raja |
| Eddie Deezen | ... | Eddie Lipschultz | |
| Marsha Warfield | ... | Officer White | |
| Elizabeth Arlen | ... | Shelley | |
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Karen A. Smythe | ... | Clorinda Antonucci |
| Joe Spinell | ... | Guido Antonucci | |
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Robert Gwaltney | ... | Humping the Butler |
| Lucinda Jenney | ... | Olivia | |
| Dan O'Herlihy | ... | Judge Sternhill | |
| Stephen Davies | ... | Strobe | |
| Taylor Negron | ... | Whitey | |
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Two dim-witted street peddlers, Jack and Barney, arrive in Palm Beach, Florida, looking for a better, wealthier lifestyle. In Palm Beach, Jack falls for Olivia, a young heiress running an orphaned children's shelter being threatened with foreclosure. Jack, at Barney's insistence, enrolls them both at a finishing school so they can learn the etiquette of the upper class in order to fit in with the hope that Olivia's uncle will approve of Jack wanting to marry her and help her obtain an inheritance to save the orphanage. Written by matt-282
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Jake Bateman: [shakes his head and clears his throat] Mmm-mm!
Barney: What? Oh. Sure he loves her, sure he wants to fuck her...
Barney: [Jake makes the same sound, louder] Oh, whatever. I'm just with him, man.
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Although uncredited, Linda Fiorentino plays the Spanish maid that disrupts the dance between Olivia and Strobe at the fancy party for the dog. See more »Quotes
Barney: [the class at the Phelps School is introducing themselves] Hi, my name is Barney Benar. I'm here with my friend Jake because there's this girl he's trying to nail...Jake Bateman: [shakes his head and clears his throat] Mmm-mm!
Barney: What? Oh. Sure he loves her, sure he wants to fuck her...
Barney: [Jake makes the same sound, louder] Oh, whatever. I'm just with him, man.
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22 August 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$444,746Company Credits
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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.