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Released Year: 1992
Runtime: 92 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Directors: Dennis Dugan
Writers: Pat Proft
Casts: John Turturro, Nancy Marchand, Bob Nelson, Mel Smith, Teri Copley, George de la Peña, John Savident, Spike Alexander, Juliana Donald
IMDB: Brain Donors (1992)
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San Francisco Chronicle -
Like the best Marx Brothers films, Brain Donors has gags for the sake of gags. There's no pretense to plausibility. It's just layers and layers of jokes; some work, some don't. [18 April 1992, p.C3]
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Chicago Tribune -
A string of slapstick sequences at the end of Brain Donors...finally unleashes its potential for subversive hilarity. But the wait is long and not altogether compensated by Turturro's smooth delivery.
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The New York Times -
Brain Donors is a short, reasonably snappy attempt at nothing less than a present-day Marx Brothers comedy,
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Miami Herald -
The movie is quick and breezy for its first half-hour, then seems to grind down to a deadened pace: The actors' routines lose their freshness, and the nonexistent story line becomes apparent. The jokes get worse, too. Fortunately, at 80 minutes, the film is too brief to drag. [21 April 1992, p.E7]
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Austin Chronicle -
Turturro-Nelson-Smith come across as nothing more than three strangers with an out of synch, watered-down routine that flounders as a pale imitation of their hallowed predecessors.
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Brain Donors (1992)
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.
Brain Donors (1992)
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Information
Released Year: 1992
Runtime: 92 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Directors: Dennis Dugan
Writers: Pat Proft
Casts: John Turturro, Nancy Marchand, Bob Nelson, Mel Smith, Teri Copley, George de la Peña, John Savident, Spike Alexander, Juliana Donald
IMDB: Brain Donors (1992)
Storyline
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.
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Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle -
Like the best Marx Brothers films, Brain Donors has gags for the sake of gags. There's no pretense to plausibility. It's just layers and layers of jokes; some work, some don't. [18 April 1992, p.C3]
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Chicago Tribune -
A string of slapstick sequences at the end of Brain Donors...finally unleashes its potential for subversive hilarity. But the wait is long and not altogether compensated by Turturro's smooth delivery.
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The New York Times -
Brain Donors is a short, reasonably snappy attempt at nothing less than a present-day Marx Brothers comedy,
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Miami Herald -
The movie is quick and breezy for its first half-hour, then seems to grind down to a deadened pace: The actors' routines lose their freshness, and the nonexistent story line becomes apparent. The jokes get worse, too. Fortunately, at 80 minutes, the film is too brief to drag. [21 April 1992, p.E7]
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Austin Chronicle -
Turturro-Nelson-Smith come across as nothing more than three strangers with an out of synch, watered-down routine that flounders as a pale imitation of their hallowed predecessors.
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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.
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