Synopsis
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
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Cast
- Danny DeVitoHarry Valentini
- Joe PiscopoMoe Dickstein
- Harvey KeitelBobby DiLea
- Ray SharkeyMarco
- Dan HedayaAnthony Castelo
- Louis AlbanoFrank "The Fixer" Acavano
- Julie BovassoLil Dickstein
- Patti LuPoneWanda Valentini
- Antonia ReyAunt Sadie
- Mimi CecchiniGrandma Valentini
Recommandations
- 100
Chicago Tribune
Big laughs, foul language to the point of absurdity and one hilarious, screaming performance atop another combine to make Wise Guys one of the funniest times you will have at the movies this year. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Wise Guys is an abundant movie, filled with ideas and gags and great characters. It never runs dry. It never has the desperation of so many gangster comedies, which seem to be marching over the same tired ground. This movie was made with joy, and you can feel it in the sense of all the actors working at the top of their form. - 80
The New York Times
From its cartoony credits to its knish-and-cannoli close, Wise Guys is one funny movie. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Directed by Brian De Palma with an uncharacteristic twinkle in his eye, the film offers such a likable gallery of cement-heads that we're in no mood to carp about the movie's creaky storyline, belabored gags or meandering chase scenes. - 63
Slant Magazine
The macho bluster taken seriously in De Palma’s gorgeous but uninterestingly pumped-up Elliott Ness saga is here intriguingly skewered. - 63
Washington Post
Wise Guys, a surprisingly sweet, but sluggish Mafia farce, teams easy-going Joe Piscopo with driven, dangerous Danny De Vito in a neo-Abbott and Costello Meet the Godfather. - 60
Time Out
Some great laughs, but it isn't hard to see why the film was never released theatrically in Britain: at times it just gets bogged down with over-the-top performances. The ending is great, though. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Often funny, though just as often tasteless.
