Going Overboard

5/11/19891h 37m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Beauty queens, a rock star and one desperate comedian... All making waves on the high seas! ~

Overview:

Shecky Moskowitz is the zany cocktail waiter on this pleasure cruise with stunningly gorgeous beauty queens. Since the ship's comedian, Dickie Diamond, gets all the girls by being a funny man, Shecky dreams of taking over as the ship's comic. Unfortunately, Dickie doesn't want the competition and refuses to give Shecky a chance at performing as his warm-up. As fate would have it, Dickie gets locked in the bathroom and in need of a comic act, Shecky is given his big break at stand up. Suddenly all the beauty queens become interested in funny Shecky. But the big question is: will he sink or swim? Shecky's antics rock the boat in this hilarious sea adventure which contains hysterical comic sketches and sexy fantasy sequences.

Director:

Valerie Breiman

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$200,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

friendship
rock star
dictator
narration
bartender
cruise ship
model
woman director
trying to impress women
hollywood agent
locked in bathroom

Cast

Adam Sandler

~ as ~

Schecky Moskowitz

Scott LaRose

~ as ~

Dickie Diamond

Tom Hodges

~ as ~

Bob / Schecky's Mother

Lisa Collins

~ as ~

Ellen

Adam Rifkin

~ as ~

Croaker / Miss Spain

Peter Berg

~ as ~

Mort Ginsberg

Billy Zane

~ as ~

King Neptune

Burt Young

~ as ~

General Noriega

Valerie Breiman

~ as ~

Bambi

Ricky Paull Goldin

~ as ~

Terrorist Without Shirt

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Reviews (2)

Andre Gonzales
Written 2 year(s) ago
2
Only this movie and Punch Drunk Love, were the dumbest Adam Sandler movies I've ever seen. This movie is even funny. Adam Sandler looks more like an idiot then a star in this movie.
sunopako
Written 6 month(s) ago
4
Adam Sandler's acting debut. He did not participate in writing or directing the script, and did not even come up with the idea for the movie. He just played the main character, an unfunny comedian who dreams of becoming funny one day (on a ship). Adam's acting was bad and inept... although it's not that striking, given the sheer awfulness of everything else in the movie. It's badly filmed, the writing is even worse... The movie is only valuable because Sandler was in it.

Going Overboard tries its best to seem like a comedy, and this is probably its main weakness. The Room with Tommy Wiseau, which is similar in many aspects, became a cult movie because of how badly it was made, but The Room is a drama. The badness of the plot conflicts and the broken tension became the foundation for the audience's mocking pleasure. In Going Overboard, the dramatic elements are very rudimentary, and this makes it difficult to treat the movie with a sense of humor, but it is possible!

I don't recommend this movie to anyone except scholars of Adam Sandler's work. For those who do decide to watch it, I advise you to try to accept the film's inconsistencies and laugh at them. This is the best that Going Overboard can do.