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| Directed by | Valerie Breiman |
| Written by | Valerie Breiman |
| Produced by | Mark Daniel Jones Adam Rifkin |
| Starring | Adam Sandler Burt Young |
| Cinematography | Ron Jacobs |
| Edited by | Randy D. Wiles |
| Music by | Steven "Scooby" Scott Smalley |
Production company | L.A. Dreams Productions |
| Distributed by | Theater Technologies, Inc. Vidmark Entertainment |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $800,000 |
Going Overboard is a 1989 Americancomedy film directed by Valerie Breiman, and starringAdam Sandler in his film debut,Burt Young,Allen Covert,Billy Zane,Terry Moore,Milton Berle, andBilly Bob Thornton in a small role. It was released on October 27, 1989. The film was also released byVidmark Entertainment in 1995. Sandler would later have a breakout role for the filmBilly Madison after working onSaturday Night Live.
Shecky Moskowitz is a strugglingcomedian working on acruise ship. Shecky gets his chance to be the ship's comedian when it is thought that the regular insult comedian, Dickie Diamond, had fallen overboard and drowned. (Dickie actually locked himself in the men's room.) Shecky is nervous about performing, butKing Neptune convinces him to go for the opportunity by telling Shecky about the power of laughter. Shecky's first performance is very unsuccessful as he is booed off the stage, he is especially heckled by the construction worker Dave. However, after a lecture byMilton Berle, Shecky succeeds in making the audience laugh. At that point, two terrorists sent by General Noriega come on board and want to kill Miss Australia after she insulted him. Shecky, remembering the advice about the power of laughter, saves her by promising to put theassassins in a film. Dickie pleads to God for mercy and the men's room door is unlocked; he quickly blasphemes as an insult to God and returns to his performance, but the people no longer like him. The film ends with everyone dancing and Noriega setting off a bomb.
OnRotten Tomatoes, the film has four reviews listed, all of which are negative.[1]
David Nusair ofReel Film Reviews gave it zero out of four, and called it "...a slapdash and thoroughly amateurish piece of work that suffers from a total dearth of positive attributes."[2]J.R. Taylor ofEntertainment Weekly gave it a grade D.[3]