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1987 | Danny
Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture Leading Role | 1987 | Rodney
Budget 11,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 91,258,000 USD
In the original script, Rodney Dangerfield's character was poor, but Harold Ramis suggested that it be changed to make him rich.
When Thornton talks to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. over the phone, the last thing he says before hanging up is "Next time, I'll call Robert Ludlum!" Spy novelist Ludlum was one of Rodney Dangerfield's real-life neighbors at the time.
During the scene where Thornton is in Professor Turgeson's history class, and where Turgeson picks up the desk and throws it across the room while yelling at Thornton, if you look really closely you can see that Rodney Dangerfield is laughing while Sam Kinison is yelling at him, trying to get him to answer the question about the Korean War. This take was ultimately left in the movie, because Dangerfield had such a hard time keeping a straight face during his scene with Kinison that eventually Alan Metter decided to leave him laughing from a far distance in the final cut.
Like his character, in his youth, Rodney Dangerfield was an acrobatic high diver in real life.
This was the sixth highest grossing film of 1986, and the second highest grossing comedy of the year after Crocodile Dundee (1986).
"Thornton Melon: Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out. And then bring one every ten minutes."
"Professor Terguson: You remember that thing we had about 30 years ago called the Korean conflict? And how we failed to achieve victory? How come we didn't cross the 38th parallel and push those rice-eaters back to the Great Wall of China? Professor Terguson: [rips a desk apart] Then take the fucking wall apart [shouts] Professor Terguson: brick by brick and nuke them back into the fucking stone age forever? Tell me why! How come? Say it! Say it! Thornton Melon: [incensed] All right. I'll say it. 'Cause Truman was too much of a *pussy wimp* to let MacArthur go in there [shouts] Thornton Melon: and blow out those Commie bastards! Professor Terguson: Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I'm gonna be watching you. Thornton Melon: [chuckling to his classmates] Good teacher. He really seems to care. About what I have no idea."
