Going Overboard is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Valerie Breiman, and starring Adam Sandler in his film debut, Burt Young, Allen Covert, Billy Zane, Terry Moore, Milton Berle, and Billy Bob Thornton in a small role.

Sandler would later had a breakout role for the film Billy Madison after working on Saturday Night Live.

At that point, two terrorists sent by General Noriega come on board and want to kill Miss Australia after she insulted him.

Shecky, remembering the advice about the power of laughter, saves her by promising to put the assassins in a film.

[1] David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews gave it zero out of four, and called it "...a slapdash and thoroughly amateurish piece of work that suffers from a total dearth of positive attributes.