Taglines: They’re the best of friends… And they’ve got the scars to prove it.
Dutch – Driving Me Crazy movie storyline. Working-class good guy Dutch Dooley is the current boyfriend of a wealthy, snobbish tycoon’s ex-wife. Volunteering to drive the woman’s son home for Thanksgiving to Chicago from his boarding school in Georgia, little does Dutch expect the picaresque adventures in store for him.
When a blunt, down-to-earth construction worker takes to the road with an insufferable twelve-year-old snob (desperately insecure under the surface) who does not approve of him in the least, quite a little must happen before they can reach their destination as friends — or, for that matter, get home at all.
Dutch (released in the UK and Australia as Driving Me Crazy) is a 1991 American road comedy-drama film directed by Peter Faiman (his second and last theatrical film, after “Crocodile” Dundee) and written by John Hughes. The original music score was composed by Alan Silvestri. The film stars Ethan Embry (as Doyle Standish), Ed O’Neill and JoBeth Williams with a cameo appearance by golfer great Arnold Palmer. O’ Neill and Embry would work together again over a decade later in the 2003 version of the series Dragnet. Ari Meyers and E.G. Daily co-starred.
Dutch – Driving Me Crazy (1991)
Directed by: Peter Faiman
Starring: Ed O’Neill, Ethan Embry, JoBeth Williams, Christopher McDonald, Ari Meyers, Elizabeth Daily, Kathleen Freeman, Shelby Leverington, Kyle Fredericks
Screenplay by: John Hughes
Production Design by: Stan Jolley, Ken Kaufman
Cinematography by: Charles Minsky
Film Editing by: Adam Bernardi, Paul Hirsch, Rick Shaine
Costume Design by: Jennifer L. Parsons
Set Decoration by: Jackie Carr, Ken Kaufman
Art Direction by: Tracy Bousman, Christopher Burian-Mohr
Music by: Alan Silvestri
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: July 19, 1991
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