Going Overboard

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Going Overboard
DVD cover
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
Release date	October 27, 1989 (1989-10-27)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$800,000

Going Overboard is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Valerie Breiman, and starring Adam Sandler in his film debut, Burt Young, Allen Covert, Billy Zane, Terry Moore, Milton Berle, and Billy Bob Thornton in a small role. It was released on October 27, 1989. The film was also released by Vidmark Entertainment in 1995. Sandler would later have a breakout role for the film Billy Madison after working on Saturday Night Live.

Shecky Moskowitz is a struggling

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.

• Adam Sandler as Shecky Moskowitz
• Tom Hodges as Bob
• Lisa Collins as Ellen
• Scott LaRose as Dickie Diamond
• Burt Young as General Noriega
• Adam Rifkin as Croaker / Miss Spain
• Peter Berg as Mort Ginsberg
• Ricky Paull Goldin as Achmed
• Warren Selko as Ekebem
• Allen Covert as The Bartender
• Billy Zane as King Neptune
• Terry Moore as Mistress
• Milton Berle as himself
• Billy Bob Thornton as Dave
• Dan Povenmire as Yellow Teeth guitarist
• Steven Brill
  as Priest
• Gabe Sachs as Funeral Moaner

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has four reviews listed, all of which are negative.^[1]

David Nusair of Reel 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 of Entertainment Weekly gave it a grade D.^[3]

• Going Overboard at
  IMDb