Going Berserk

Plot

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.

Cast

John Candy as John Bourgignon

Joe Flaherty as Chick Leff

Eugene Levy as Sal DiPasquale

Alley Mills as Nancy Reese

Pat Hingle as Ed Reese

Richard Libertini as Sun Yi

Paul Dooley as Dr. Ted

Dixie Carter as Angela

Eve Brent Ashe as Mrs. Reese

Ann Bronston as Patti Reese

Murphy Dunne as Public Defender

Kathy Bendett as News Reporter

Elizabeth Kerr as Grandmother Reese

Dan Barrows as Minister

Brenda Currin as Sal's Secretary

Frantz Turner as Wallace

Gloria Gifford as Francine

Bill Saluga as Skipper/Kung Fu Leader

Ernie Hudson as Muhammed Jerome Willy

Kurtwood Smith as Clarence

Julius Harris as The Judge

Elinor Donahue as Margaret Anderson