The Dream Team

The Dream Team. 1989 Universal Pictures & Imagine Entertainment.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, James Remar
Director: Howard Zieff
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A psychologist named Dr. Weitzman (Dennis Boutsikaris) works in a sanitarium in New Jersey, overlooking four patients named Billy, Henry, Jack and Albert.

Billy Caulfield (Keaton) is a writer and seemingly the most normal of the four, and their unofficial leader. He is also a pathological liar with delusions of grandeur, with the occasional violent outburst. Henry Sikorsky (Lloyd) is an obsessive/compulsive neat freak who has deluded himself into believing he is another doctor employed at the sanitarium, complete with lab coat, clipboard, and "reports" on the other patients. Jack McDermott (Boyle) was an advertising executive, and now he believes he's Jesus Christ. Finally, Albert Ianuzzi (Furst) is a near-catatonic man-child who only repeats things he hears from televised baseball games, particularly from announcer Phil Rizzuto.

Dr. Weitzman persuades his superiors that the four need some time away from the sanitarium, and takes them to a Yankees game. The doctor witnesses two crooked policemen (Philip Bosco & James Remar) murdering another cop, and gets assaulted for his troubles. Billy, Henry, Jack and Albert are now stranded in New York City, a place more bizarre than the sanitarium. It's also up to them to save their doctor from being murdered by the two corrupt cops, as well as having to pry the clues out of Albert, who was the only one to see Dr. Weitzman attacked.

Recommended movie.