Disorderlies (1987)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Michael Schultz

Writers:

Mark Feldberg (writer)
Mitchell Klebanoff (writer)

Release Date:

14 August 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Lapping up luxury and rapping up a storm

Plot:

Three bumbling orderlies are hired to take care of an old rich man. Humorous mayhem follows.

Plot Keywords:

Orderly | Screwball | Obesity | Food | What Happened To Epilogue

Cast

Mark Morales	...	Markie
Darren Robinson	...	Buffy
Damon Wimbley	...	Kool
Ralph Bellamy	...	Albert Dennison
Tony Plana	...	Miguel
Marco Rodríguez	...	Luis Montana
Troy Beyer	...	Carla
Don Hood	...	Sgt. Bledsoe
Anthony Geary	...	Winslow Lowry
Helen Reddy	...	Happy Socialite
Lisa Kingston	...	Blackjack Dealer
Jim Jackman	...	Orderly #1
Don Woodard	...	Orderly #2
Charles Green	...	Orderly #3
Joseph R. Sicari	...	Nursing Home Owner

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:L | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

The mansion used is the Clampett mansion from "The Beverly Hillbillies".

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: At one point the medicine machine goes off alerting the Fat Boys that it's time for Albert's medication. The time on it reads 8:15. Later that evening when Albert's in bed, the camera pans to a clock that reads just a few minutes after 8:00.

Quotes:

Nursing Home Owner: This it okay. Buffy! Kool! Mark!
Nursing Home Owner: Okay now there were six chocolate cakes in that refrigerator, where are they?
Markie, Buffy, Kool: I don't know.
Nursing Home Owner: I have had it up to here. This is the fifth time thats happened in a week.
Markie: [Markie, Buffy and Kool are all pointing at each other saying] It was him
Nursing Home Owner: Now if any of you didn't do it, then who had the keys to the refrigerator?
Buffy: Not me
Nursing Home Owner: What was that?
Markie, Buffy, Kool: What was what?
Nursing Home Owner: Ah pick those up.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Big Business (1988)

Soundtrack:

Tryin' to Dance

A Good Solid Comedy Movie

As you may know, comedy is the most difficult art form of all. To make people laugh, all people, young, old, white, Asian or black, male and female, is truly the finest art form. This movie pulls it off. You have some over weight young black orderlies who can not only laugh at themselves, but make you laugh with every line, every nuance and subtle gesture they conjure up in this movie. Ralph Bellamy plays the consummate straight guy and doesn't miss a beat, esp. at his age. My 15 year old son watched it once and we split our sides laughing. My son is 30 now and he asked me if I wanted to watch that movie with him again. "Yeah" I said. We could use more laughs. We could use more young actor/comedians, especially ones from our own minority groups here in the good ol' USA. This is a funny movie and its probably more hilarious the second time around.