Michael Keaton
Johnny Kelly/Johnny Dangerously
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Dec 21, 1984 · Michael Keaton stars as a newspaper boy who becomes a gangster in the 1930s to pay for his mother's medical bills. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this film.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Amy Heckerling
- 1984-12-21
Johnny Dangerously is a 1984 American crime comedy film, and a parody of 1930s crime/gangster movies. It was directed by Amy Heckerling ; two of its four screenwriters, Jeff Harris and Bernie Kukoff , had previously created the hit series Diff'rent Strokes .
Johnny Kelly (Michael Keaton) lives a double life: at home, he's the good apple, looking after his ailing mother (Maureen Stapleton) and sexually obsessed brother, Tommy (Griffin Dunne). But his ...
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- Amy Heckerling
- PG-13
- Michael Keaton
Johnny beats up Danny Vermin (Georg Olden) in self defense and discovers his mom needs an operation they cannot afford. Since the execution of Johnny's father, Killer Kelly, his widow, Ma Kelly (Maureen Stapleton), has supported Johnny and his younger brother, Tommy, who is fascinated by the law.
Find out who starred in and worked on the comedy film Johnny Dangerously, directed by Amy Heckerling and written by Norman Steinberg and others. See the full list of actors, producers, writers, composers, and more on IMDb.
A gangster parody with Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo and Peter Boyle. Roger Ebert praises the cast but criticizes the lack of originality and humor in the script.
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Harry Colomby. Writer. Norman Steinberg. Writer. Bernie Kukoff. Writer. An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
