Delirious

Delirious

1991 · 96 min · EN · PG · 5.7 (178 votes)
Dir. Tom Mankiewicz · Starring John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, Dylan Baker, Charles Rocket · Music Cliff Eidelman

“A comedy about a soap opera writer who's typing without a ribbon.”

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A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

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A delightfully meta and surreal trip into the absurdity of daytime television. It's a charmingly bizarre exploration of identity, where the lines between creator and creation blur in a wonderfully wacky way.

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