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The movie also stars Creator/LorraineBracco, Dennis Boutsikaris, Creator/MiloOShea, Creator/PhilipBosco, Creator/JamesRemar, Michael Lembeck, Jack Duffy, and Larry Pine.

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The movie also stars Creator/LorraineBracco, Dennis Boutsikaris, Creator/DennisBoutsikaris, Creator/MiloOShea, Creator/PhilipBosco, Creator/JamesRemar, Michael Lembeck, Jack Duffy, and Larry Pine.
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* MisfitMobilizationMoment: [[spoiler:Albert]] snaps the team out of their collective HeroicBSOD with one word: [[spoiler:"shithead"]]. This is [[spoiler:his first verbal communication with anyone in the film]].

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* MisfitMobilizationMoment: [[spoiler:Albert]] snaps the team out of their collective HeroicBSOD with one word: [[spoiler:"shithead"]]. This is [[spoiler:his [[spoiler:the first verbal communication with anyone thing he says in the film]].film that isn't just parroting what he's heard on TV]].

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* LosingHorns: When Jack's former partner rats him out, Jack yanks his chain about a major deal the partner's business was expecting, and makes this sound.

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* LosingHorns: When Jack's former business partner rats him out, out to the police, Jack yanks his chain about a major deal the partner's business was expecting, and makes this sound.sound.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: [[spoiler:Albert]] snaps the team out of their collective HeroicBSOD with one word: [[spoiler:"shithead"]]. This is [[spoiler:his first verbal communication with anyone in the film]].



** Billy compares a psychiatric nurse to [[Film/TheGodfather Luca Brasi]].
** Seconds later he calls Henry Creator/DrDemento.

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** In the group therapy scene Billy compares a psychiatric nurse nurse's appearance to [[Film/TheGodfather Luca Brasi]].
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Brasi]], calls Henry Creator/DrDemento."Creator/DrDemento" and quotes ''Literature/CaseyAtTheBat'' ("No joy in Mudville").

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* OnlySaneMan: For a given definition of "sane" as he is still a mental patient but Billy, even with his anger issues, is by far the most lucid and capable of the group and the one most able to get by.

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* OnlySaneMan: For a given definition of "sane" as he is still a mental patient but Billy, even with his anger issues, is by far the most lucid and capable of the group and the one most able to get by. TruthInTelevision, as people with acute mental illness can be quite lucid and functional for the most part.


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** Billy compares a psychiatric nurse to [[Film/TheGodfather Luca Brasi]].
** Seconds later he calls Henry Creator/DrDemento.
** A man getting ready to tow the team's car calls Jack, who has stripped to his underwear, Franchise/{{Tarzan}}.

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* DreamTeam: Spoofed. The four characters are dysfunctional psychiatric patients who have to overcome their various crippling neuroses, not to mention their inherent dislike for each other, to reveal the truth after they're framed for a murder by corrupt police officers.

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* DreamTeam: Spoofed. The four characters are dysfunctional psychiatric patients who have to overcome their various crippling neuroses, not to mention their [[TeethClenchedTeamwork inherent dislike for each other, other]], to reveal the truth after they're framed for a murder by corrupt police officers.officers.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Billy (choleric), Henry (melancholic), Jack (sanguine), Albert (phlegmatic).



* LosingHorns: When Jack's former partner rats him out, Jack yanks his chain about a major deal the partner's business was expecting, and makes this sound.



* RippedFromThePhoneBook: Done by Billy (Keaton) when he and the group when he and the group are searching for their missing psychiatrist in a hospital. One of the group, Henry, does not that what Billy did is vandalism, but Billy shrugs it off and it's never brought up again.
* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Albert is a mental patient who loves watching TV, particularly sports, and only communicates by mimicking what he's heard on television.

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* RippedFromThePhoneBook: Done by Billy (Keaton) when he and the group when he and the group are searching for their missing psychiatrist in a hospital. One of the group, Henry, does not note that what Billy did is vandalism, but Billy shrugs it off and it's never brought up again.
* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Albert is a mental patient who loves watching TV, particularly sports, and only communicates by mimicking what he's heard on television.television.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"He called me a shithead!"]]
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* HairTriggerTemper: Billy is constantly on edge and flies into explosive fits of anger over pretty much anything. It's why he's in the hospital to begin with.


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* OnlySaneMan: For a given definition of "sane" as he is still a mental patient but Billy, even with his anger issues, is by far the most lucid and capable of the group and the one most able to get by.
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* DefiniteArticleTitle: The movie is simply titled ''The Dream Team''.
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* DefinitiveArticleTitle: ''The Dream Team''.

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A 1989 American comedy thriller directed by Creator/HowardZieff that has a group of mental patients (Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/ChristopherLloyd, Creator/PeterBoyle, and Creator/StephenFurst) going on a field trip that leaves them unsupervised and things go awry.

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''The Dream Team'' is a
1989 American comedy thriller directed by Creator/HowardZieff Howard Zieff that has a group of mental patients (Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/ChristopherLloyd, Creator/PeterBoyle, and Creator/StephenFurst) going on a field trip that leaves them unsupervised and things go awry.



* NapoleonDelusion: Jack (Boyle) believes himself to be the second coming of Jesus.

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* NapoleonDelusion: Jack (Boyle) believes himself to be the second coming of Jesus.



* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Albert (Furst) is a mental patient who loves watching TV, particularly sports, and only communicates by mimicking what he's heard on television.

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* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Albert (Furst) is a mental patient who loves watching TV, particularly sports, and only communicates by mimicking what he's heard on television.
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The movie also stars Creator/LorraineBracco, Creator/DennisBoutsikaris, Creator/MiloOShea, Creator/PhilipBosco, Creator/JamesRemar, Creator/MichaelLembeck, Creator/JackDuffy, and Creator/LarryPine.

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The movie also stars Creator/LorraineBracco, Creator/DennisBoutsikaris, Dennis Boutsikaris, Creator/MiloOShea, Creator/PhilipBosco, Creator/JamesRemar, Creator/MichaelLembeck, Creator/JackDuffy, Michael Lembeck, Jack Duffy, and Creator/LarryPine.
Larry Pine.
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A 1989 American comedy thriller directed by Creator/HowardZieff that has a group of mental patients (Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/ChristopherLloyd, Creator/PeterBoyle, and Creator/StephenFurst) going on a field trip that leaves them unsupervised and things go awry.

The movie also stars Creator/LorraineBracco, Creator/DennisBoutsikaris, Creator/MiloOShea, Creator/PhilipBosco, Creator/JamesRemar, Creator/MichaelLembeck, Creator/JackDuffy, and Creator/LarryPine.

It was released on April 7, 1989.

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!Tropes for the film:
* ClipboardOfAuthority: This eases Henry Sikorsky (Lloyd) in doctor-impersonating.
* DreamTeam: Spoofed. The four characters are dysfunctional psychiatric patients who have to overcome their various crippling neuroses, not to mention their inherent dislike for each other, to reveal the truth after they're framed for a murder by corrupt police officers.
* NapoleonDelusion: Jack (Boyle) believes himself to be the second coming of Jesus.
* RippedFromThePhoneBook: Done by Billy (Keaton) when he and the group when he and the group are searching for their missing psychiatrist in a hospital. One of the group, Henry, does not that what Billy did is vandalism, but Billy shrugs it off and it's never brought up again.
* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Albert (Furst) is a mental patient who loves watching TV, particularly sports, and only communicates by mimicking what he's heard on television.

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