Brain Donors is an American comedy movie released by Paramount Pictures, loosely based on the Marx Brothers comedy, A Night at the Opera . The film co-stars John Turturro, Mel Smith, and Bob Nelson in the approximations of the Groucho, Chico, and Harpo roles, with Nancy Marchand in the Margaret Dumont dowager role. The project was filmed as Lame Ducks; however, when the film's producers left for another studio, Paramount scrapped the publicity campaign, changed the title, and withdrew the film after its initial screenings. Brain Donors attracted attention on the home video market, which has... resulted in a cult following according to its screenwriter, Pat Proft. After the death of tycoon and philanthropist Oscar Winterhaven Oglethorpe, a ballet company is founded in his name by his widow, Lillian . The formation of the ballet company leads to ambulance-chasing attorney Roland T. Flakfizer vying against Oglethorpe's former attorney Edmund Lazlo to be director of the company.
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| Release date: | April 17, 1992 |
| Directed by: | Dennis Dugan |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 79 Minutes |
| Producer: | David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Gil Netter, James D. Brubaker |
| Editor: | Malcolm Campbell |
| Music by: | Ira Newborn |
| Screenplay by: | Pat Proft |
| Genre: | Comedy |