Johnny Dangerously (1984)
- Directed by
- Amy Heckerling
- Genre
- comedy film, parody film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 215 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A kindhearted man becomes a gangster in the 1930s to pay for his mother’s medical bills and his brother’s law school. The movie makes fun of old crime films with constant word mix-ups and exaggerated characters.
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What happens
Johnny Dangerously is a 1984 American crime comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling; two of its four screenwriters, Jeff Harris and Bernie Kukoff, had previously created the hit series Diff'rent Strokes. The film, a parody of 1930s crime/gangster movies, stars Michael Keaton as an honest, goodhearted man who turns to a life of crime to finance his mother's skyrocketing medical bills and to put his younger brother through law school. Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne, Dom DeLuise, Danny DeVito, Dick Butkus and Alan Hale Jr. also star in the film. Part of the film's comedic appeal is the frequent use of malapropisms by Johnny and other crime characters, especially in instances where curse words were intended. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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