Brain Donors

Brain Donors 1992 is an American comedy movie released by Paramount Pictures, loosely based on the Marx Brothers comedies A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races the two films the Marx Brothers did after leaving Paramount. The film costars John Turturro, Mel Smith, and Bob Nelson in the approximations of the Groucho, Chico, and Harpo roles, with Nancy Marchand in the Margaret Dumont dowager role.

After the death of tycoon and philanthropist Oscar Winterhaven Oglethorpe, a ballet company is founded in his name by his widow, Lillian Nancy Marchand. Ambulancechasing attorney Roland T. Flakfizer John Turturro competes against Oglethorpes former attorney, Edmund Lazlo John Savident, to be director of the company. Lazlo is chosen for the position after signing the greatest ballet dancer in the world, The Great Volare George de la Pena. Flakfizer with assistance from his two associates Rocco Mel Smith and Jacques Bob Nelson earns a spot as codirector by wooing the wealthy widow and by signing the companys leading ballerina Juliana Donald, billed as Juli Donald and her dancer boyfriend Alan Grant Spike Alexander. The ensuing struggle between Flakfizer and Lazlo leads to comic hijinks, including a badger game involving a chorus girl Teri Copley, and an openingnight performance ludicrously sabotaged by Flakfizer and his cohorts.Richard Harrington in his review for the Washington Post wrote, Its all very busy, and in Zucker style there seem to bejokes per minute, but most fly fast and fall flat. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle felt that the film was an audacious attempt actually to make them like they used to with no apologies, no nostalgia. Its no masterpiece, but neither was every Marx Brothers movie. In her review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, Brain Donors will stop at very little to get its laughs, and Mr. Turturro has just the right silliness for the occasion. ........

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