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Going Berserk is a american film of genre Drama directed by David Steinberg released in USA on 30 september 1983 with John Candy
Going Berserk (1983)
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Add to a movie listGoing Berserk is a 1983 comedy film starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty, and Eugene Levy and directed by David Steinberg.
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John Bourgignon (Candy) is an amiable chauffeur and would-be drummer who is engaged to the daughter (Mills) of an extremely disapproving United States congressman (Hingle). As the wedding date approaches, Bourgignon's sleazy film-director friend (Levy) blackmails the senator into allowing him to record the ceremony, while Bourgignon runs afoul of a motorcycle gang and later finds himself kicked out onto the nighttime city streets while handcuffed to a dead man (Hudson). Worst of all, a local aerobics studio has become the front for an inept religious cult which has targeted the senator for assassination, and attempts to drug and brainwash Bourgignon into killing his future father-in-law during the wedding ceremony. In the end, with the questionable help of his even more hapless friend (Flaherty), Bourgignon more or less saves the day, and more or less lives happily ever after.Actors
John Candy
(John Bourgignon)
Joe Flaherty
(Chick Leff)
Eugene Levy
(Sal DiPasquale)
Alley Mills
(Nancy Reese)
Pat Hingle
(Ed Reese)
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