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Disorderlies

Disorderlies

Overview
Disorderlies is a 1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records.*May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers....

 comedy film
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies...

 starring the rap
Hip hop music
Hip hop music is a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture, and is commonly based on concepts of loop, rapping, freestyle, DJing, scratching, sampling and beatboxing. The music is used to express concerns of political, social, and personal issues...

 group, The Fat Boys
The Fat Boys
The Fat Boys, originally known as The Disco 3, were an American hip-hop music trio from Brooklyn, New York City, that emerged in the early 1980s.-Former Members:*Mark Morales a.k.a. "Prince Markie Dee"...

, and Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an American actor with a career that spanned sixty-two years.-Early life:...

.

Winslow Lowry, the no-good, indebted nephew of elderly, infirm billionaire Albert Dennison seeks to speed his uncle's demise by hiring three of the most inept orderlies
Orderly
A medical orderly or orderly is a hospital attendant whose job consists of assisting medical and/or nursing staff with various nursing and/or medical interventions...

 he can possibly find. The trio, Markie, Buffy and Kool, only mean well, however, and their good-natured antics actually help re-energize the ailing Albert.
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Encyclopedia
Disorderlies is a 1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records.*May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers....

 comedy film
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies...

 starring the rap
Hip hop music
Hip hop music is a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture, and is commonly based on concepts of loop, rapping, freestyle, DJing, scratching, sampling and beatboxing. The music is used to express concerns of political, social, and personal issues...

 group, The Fat Boys
The Fat Boys
The Fat Boys, originally known as The Disco 3, were an American hip-hop music trio from Brooklyn, New York City, that emerged in the early 1980s.-Former Members:*Mark Morales a.k.a. "Prince Markie Dee"...

, and Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an American actor with a career that spanned sixty-two years.-Early life:...

.

Plot summary


Winslow Lowry, the no-good, indebted nephew of elderly, infirm billionaire Albert Dennison seeks to speed his uncle's demise by hiring three of the most inept orderlies
Orderly
A medical orderly or orderly is a hospital attendant whose job consists of assisting medical and/or nursing staff with various nursing and/or medical interventions...

 he can possibly find. The trio, Markie, Buffy and Kool, only mean well, however, and their good-natured antics actually help re-energize the ailing Albert. They find out about Winslow's scheme and try to stop it from taking place.

Cast

  • Mark Morales
    Prince Markie Dee
    Mark Anthony Morales, better known by the stage name Prince Markie Dee, is an American rapper, songwriter, producer, and radio personality...

     as Markie
  • Darren Robinson
    Darren Robinson (rapper)
    Darren Robinson , also known as Buffy, The Human Beat Box, and DJ Doctor Nice , was a member of the 1980s rap group, The Fat Boys. He, along with Doug E...

     as Buffy
  • Damon Wimbley
    The Fat Boys
    The Fat Boys, originally known as The Disco 3, were an American hip-hop music trio from Brooklyn, New York City, that emerged in the early 1980s.-Former Members:*Mark Morales a.k.a. "Prince Markie Dee"...

     as Kool
  • Ralph Bellamy
    Ralph Bellamy
    Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an American actor with a career that spanned sixty-two years.-Early life:...

     as Albert Dennison
  • Anthony Geary
    Anthony Geary
    Anthony Geary is an American actor. He has starred on the ABC daytime drama General Hospital as Luke Spencer from 1978 to 1984 and from 1993 to present.-Career:...

     as Winslow Lowry
  • Tony Plana
    Tony Plana
    Tony Plana is a Cuban-American actor and director. He currently plays Betty Suarez's father, Ignacio Suarez, on the ABC show Ugly Betty.-Personal life:...

     as Miguel
  • Marco Rodríguez
    Marco Rodríguez
    Marco Rodríguez is an American actor.Rodríguez, a Hispanic, was born in Los Angeles. He received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Southern California. He is acquainted with Jeff Corey and Jose Quintero. He taught for a short amount of time in the L.A...

     as Luis Montana
  • Helen Reddy
    Helen Reddy
    Helen Reddy is an Australian/American singer-songwriter and actress. She has won a Grammy Award, appeared on Broadway and feature films, and been credited with writing and singing one of the most iconic and culturally significant songs of the 1970s, "I Am Woman".Reddy became one of the world's...

     as Happy Socialite
  • Troy Beyer
    Troy Beyer
    Troy Beyer is an American film director, screenwriter and actress.Born in New York City to an African American mother and a Caucasian Jewish father, Beyer began her acting career with a role on the children’s program Sesame Street when she was just four years old. She studied acting and...

     as Carla

Soundtrack


In addition to the score co-composed by Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley is an Academy Award-winning English orchestra composer and pop musician, and was the BBC Concert Orchestra's composer in Association between January 2002 and January 2005. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres...

 from the Art of Noise, the soundtrack features The Fat Boys
The Fat Boys
The Fat Boys, originally known as The Disco 3, were an American hip-hop music trio from Brooklyn, New York City, that emerged in the early 1980s.-Former Members:*Mark Morales a.k.a. "Prince Markie Dee"...

 performing a cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 of The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music...

' "Baby You're a Rich Man
Baby You're a Rich Man
"Baby, You're a Rich Man" is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded by The Beatles on 11 May 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios. This was the first song by the band recorded and mixed completely outside Abbey Road Studios. The song was recorded during sessions for the Magical...

", as well as other rap, pop and rock tracks. The soundtrack CD was last issued in 1995 and has since gone out of print.

Track listing

  1. "Baby You're a Rich Man
    Baby You're a Rich Man
    "Baby, You're a Rich Man" is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded by The Beatles on 11 May 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios. This was the first song by the band recorded and mixed completely outside Abbey Road Studios. The song was recorded during sessions for the Magical...

    " – The Fat Boys
    The Fat Boys
    The Fat Boys, originally known as The Disco 3, were an American hip-hop music trio from Brooklyn, New York City, that emerged in the early 1980s.-Former Members:*Mark Morales a.k.a. "Prince Markie Dee"...

  2. "I Heard a Rumour
    I Heard a Rumour
    "I Heard a Rumour" is a 1987 song recorded by English girl group Bananarama, featured on their Wow! album. It was also featured in the film Disorderlies and included on its soundtrack....

    " – Bananarama
    Bananarama
    Bananarama are an all-female pop group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin...

  3. "Disorderly Conduct" – Latin Rascals
  4. "Big Money" – Ca$hflow
  5. "Don't Treat Me Like This" – Anita
    Anita
    Anita or ANITA may refer to:* Anita , people with the given name Anitain biology*Amblypodia anita, species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia*ANITA grade, group of plants, consisting of the most basal angiosperm lineages...

  6. "Edge of a Broken Heart
    Edge of a Broken Heart
    "Edge of a Broken Heart" is a song by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was one of the songs written during the making of the album, Slippery When Wet, but was not featured on the final version of the album...

    " – Bon Jovi
    Bon Jovi
    Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , Bon Jovi formed in 1983 with guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, bassist Alec John Such and drummer Tico Torres. Other than the departure of Alec John Such in 1994 and...

  7. "Trying to Dance" – Tom Kimmel
    Tom Kimmel
    Tom Kimmel , is an American singer-songwriter and poet.Tom Kimmel grew up largely in small towns in south Alabama...

  8. "Roller One" – Art of Noise
  9. "Fat Off My Back" – Gwen Guthrie
    Gwen Guthrie
    Gwen Guthrie was an American singer and songwriter, who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, and Madonna, among others, and who wrote songs made famous by Ben E. King, and Roberta Flack.-Life and career:Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma and raised in Newark,...

  10. "Work Me Down" – Laura Hunter