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Meet Wally Sparks

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Meet Wally Sparks (1997)

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Average Rating:2.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Rodney Dangerfield once again ignores the boundaries of good (or even marginal) taste in this slapstick romp about a talk show host so annoying he makes Morton Downey, Jr., appear to have manners.... Rodney Dangerfield once again ignores the boundaries of good (or even marginal) taste in this slapstick romp about a talk show host so annoying he makes Morton Downey, Jr., appear to have manners. Features cameo appearances by Jay Leno, Tony Danza, Michael Bolton, Gilbert Gottfried, Stuttering John, George Hamilton, Sally Jesse Raphael, Alan Stewart, Jerry Springer, and Morton Downey, Jr., himself. [More]

Starring: Rodney Dangerfield, Debi Mazar, Burt Reynolds, Cindy Williams

Starring: Rodney Dangerfield, Debi Mazar, Burt Reynolds, Cindy Williams, David Ogden Stiers

Director: Peter Baldwin

Director: Peter Baldwin
Producer: Leslie Greif
Screenwriter: Harry Basil, Rodney Dangerfield
Composer: Michel Colombier
Story: Harry Basil

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Dangerfield misfire comedy on several levels; little to smile about.

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Dangerfield gets all his celebrity friends to cameo -- and they've never been worse!

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