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Johnny Dangerously (1984)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:7
Rotten:8
Average Rating:4.9/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Set in the 1930's, this gangster spoof tells the comic tale of a Johnny Kelly (Michael Keaton) who is forced into a life of crime in order to pay for his ailing mother's medical treatment.... Set in the 1930's, this gangster spoof tells the comic tale of a Johnny Kelly (Michael Keaton) who is forced into a life of crime in order to pay for his ailing mother's medical treatment. Attempting to keep his straight life and his life of crime separate Johnny takes the name Dangerously and is soon a powerful mobster flush with women and riches. The Dangerously name is about to be slandered, though, by the Kelly family when Johnny's brother (Griffin Dunne) becomes the district attorney. [More]
Starring: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Peter Boyle
Starring: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne, Glynnis O'Connor, Dom DeLuise, Jack Nance, James Ingman, Richard Dimitri
Director: Amy Heckerling
Director: Amy Heckerling
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Reviews for Johnny Dangerously
...the film doesn't just run out of laughs; it becomes positively leaden by the last half hour.
I know I shouldn't like this film, but dammit, it's just so gloriously exuberantly silly that there's no use condemning it.
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