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The Jerky Boys is a film of genre Comedy directed by J. Miller Tobin released in USA on 3 february 1995 with Alan Arkin

The Jerky Boys (1995)

The Jerky Boys
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Released in USA 3 february 1995
Length 1h21
Directed by
Genres Comedy,    Crime
Rating47% 2.3522652.3522652.3522652.3522652.352265

The Jerky Boys: The Movie, also known as The Jerky Boys, is a 1995 comedy/crime film starring John G. Brennan and Kamal Ahmed, best known as the comedy duo The Jerky Boys.

The film features two men, Johnny B. and Kamal, aka "the Jerky Boys", two self-described "low-lifes from Queens", who get into trouble with the Mafia when one of their prank calls leads them into a money laundering business. The Jerky Boys discover that their long-loved hometown bar will be torn down unless they stop it.

Synopsis

The film opens in a New York police station as a pair of "low-lifes from Queens" named Johnny B. (John G. Brennan) and Kamal (Kamal Ahmed) are taken into police custody and interrogated by an NYPD detective named Robert Worzic (Brad Sullivan). Worzic demands to know exactly how the pair got into their situation, so Johnny explains that for the past twenty years, he and Kamal frequently entertained themselves by performing prank calls on the telephone. He brings up an early call where he got his neighbor Brett Weir, the local goody-two-shoes kid, in trouble with his mother by impersonating an angry citizen and claiming that Brett has been spitting and cursing.

Actors

Alan Arkin

(Ernie Lazarro)
Alan North

(Micky Crump)
William Hickey

(Don 'Uncle Freddy' Frederico)
James Lorinz

(Brett Weir)
Paul Bartel

(Host at Tut's)
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