Brain Donors
Directed by	Dennis Dugan
Written by	Pat Proft
Starring	John Turturro, Mel Smith, Bob Nelson, Nancy Marchand, George de la Pena
Produced by	David Zucker Jerry Zucker Gil Netter James D. Brubaker
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	1992
Runtime	79 min.
Language	English
Budget	unknown
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Brain Donors (1992) is an American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures loosely based on the Marx Brothers comedy, A Night at the Opera. The movie was critically blasted and was considered a Box Office Bomb. Never-the-less, it's sharp ensemble, fast paced comedy, and sharp dialogue has given it a very small cult-like following. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Bdonors. ... Dennis Dugan (born September 5, 1946 in Wheaton, Illinois) is an American actor and film director. ... Pat Proft is a comedy writer and actor. ... John Turturro - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Mel Smith Mel Smith is an English actor, film director, writer, producer born in London on December 3, 1952) He attended New College, Oxford. ... Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 - June 18, 2000) was best known for her Emmy award-winning role on the HBO series, The Sopranos as Soprano family matriarch Livia Soprano, the mother of Tony Soprano. ... Jump to: navigation, search David Zucker (born October 16, 1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a Jewish American movie director. ... Jerry Zucker (born March 11, 1950 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American movie director. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Paramount Pictures logo used from 1987 to 2002. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Paramount Pictures logo used from 1987 to 2002. ... Jump to: navigation, search The brothers in Hollywood: (left to right) Chico, Zeppo, Groucho, Harpo The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that played in vaudeville, stage plays, film and television. ... A Night at the Opera as the title of a work of art may refer to: A Night at the Opera (1935 film), a Marx Brothers movie. ...

Plot

After the death of tycoon & philanthropist Oscar Winterhaven Oglethorpe, a ballet company in his name, is founded by his surviving wife Lillian (Nancy Marchand). The formation of the ballet company leads to injury attorney Roland T. Flakfizer (John Turturro) vying against Oglethorpe's former attorney Edmund Lazlo (John Savident) to be director of the company. Lazlo is chosen to be director of the company after signing the greatest ballet dancer in the world, Volare (George de la Pena) to dance for the company. Flakfizer however, along with his two associates Rocco Melonchek & Jaques (Mel Smith & Bob Nelson), earn a spot as co-director by wooing the wealthy widow Lillian, and by signing the company's leading ballerina, Lisa (Julie Donald). The ensuing struggle between the two lead to comic hijinx to go along with a ballet that is seriously sabotaged in the end. Jump to: navigation, search A philanthropist is someone who devotes his or her time, money, or effort towards helping others. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker Ballet is the name given to a specific dance form and technique. ... Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 - June 18, 2000) was best known for her Emmy award-winning role on the HBO series, The Sopranos as Soprano family matriarch Livia Soprano, the mother of Tony Soprano. ... John Turturro - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... John Savident (born 1938) is a well-known British actor. ... Mel Smith Mel Smith is an English actor, film director, writer, producer born in London on December 3, 1952) He attended New College, Oxford. ... A widow is a woman whose spouse has died. ...

Quotes

• Rocco: It takes a lot to make ends meet these days. In addition to driving a cab, I perform liposuction, I'm a pool cleaner, and I also have my own toupee business. My motto is, "Anything that large, should have hair on it".

• Rocco: (confronting Flakfizer) You handled my divorce a couple of years back! That was until you started dating my wife and got the court to double her original alimony request!!

Flakfizer: You didn't want me to keep seeing her in cheap motels did you? For God's sake, she was your wife, man! Liposuction is a popular operation in plastic surgery which removes fat from certain places of the human body (typically abdomen, thighs, buttocks) by liquefying it and removing it through a hollow needle. ... A toupee is a small hairpiece worn by men to cover partial baldness. ...

• Flakfizer: (introducing Rocco & Lillian to each other) Lillian Oglethorpe, Rocco Melonchek. Rocco Melonchek, Lillian Oglethorpe. In order to tell you two apart, one of you is going to have to wear a mustache.

• Flafkfizer: We'll bring in a whole new generation of ballet-goers through a series of innovative promotions and give-aways. We'll have "Leotard Nights", "Wet Tutu Competitions"...we'll even have a special ballet for the hard of hearing! All of the ballerinas will wear wooden shoes!"

• Rocco: Charity work. I'm collecting these for the less fortunate who can't afford their own pornography.

• Volare: Do you know what I was doing when I was eight?

Flakfizer: I can imagine and I'm surprised you didn't go blind.
Volare: I was dancing professionally!!
Flakfizer: Ahh, call it want you want. "Polishing the que-stick", "punching the porpoise", "clearing the snorkel", "choking the chicken", "pounding the salami"...but I didn't come here to rehash good memories. An image of Jules Léotard in the garment that bears his name A leotard is a skin-tight one-piece garment with long sleeves and no legs, made famous by the French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard (1839-1870), about whom the song The daring young man on the... Performers wearing Tutus. ... Pornography (from Greek πορνογραφία pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) (also informally referred to as porn or porno) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ...

• Flakfizer: That spells "cash" with a capital...

Jaques: "K"!!
Flakfizer: You should go back to school!
Jaques: I hated teaching.

• Flakfizer: Lillian, I dream of the day when you and I can take a Carribean cruise while holding hands undernath that old Jamaican moon. Why that old Jamaican will be mooning us, I have no idea.

• (Posing as doctors and using x-rays as playing cards)

Flakfizer: You deal in X-Rays?
Jaques: I used to work at Vegas General (hospital).
Flakfizer: (to Rocco) What do you have?
Rocco: Three hearts.
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