Captain Ron (1992)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Thom Eberhardt

Writers (WGA):

John Dwyer (story)
John Dwyer (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

18 September 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

Martin just wanted a nice, quiet family vacation. Instead, he got...

Plot:

A family in Chicago inherits the yacht formerly owned by Clark Gable. They decide to sail it from the island of Ste...

Plot Keywords:

Island | Boat | One Eyed Man | Flare Gun | Guerilla

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Kurt Russell	...	Captain Ron
Martin Short	...	Martin Harvey
Mary Kay Place	...	Katherine Harvey
Benjamin Salisbury	...	Benjamin Harvey
Meadow Sisto	...	Caroline Harvey
Sunshine Logroño	...	General Armando (as Emannuel Logrono)
Jorge Luis Ramos	...	General's Translator
J.A. Preston	...	Magistrate
Tanya Soler	...	Angeline
Raúl Estela	...	Roscoe
Jainardo Batista	...	Mamba
Dan Butler	...	Bill Zachery
Tom McGowan	...	Bill
Katherine Franco	...	Sneezing Woman
C.M. Talkington	...	Bicycle Messenger (as Clement Talkington)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for elements of sensuality, and for some language.

Runtime:

90 min | Argentina:96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Finland:K-8 (video rating) | Argentina:Atp | Canada:14A | Chile:TE | Germany:6 | Sweden:11 | USA:PG-13 | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

Touchstone Pictures

Trivia:

When the Harveys are coming into dock at the end, one of the boats being stacked is the "My Way." My Way was one of Paul Anka's biggest hits, sung by Frank Sinatra amongst others. Paul Anka plays the boat dealer.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the Harveys are seen at the beginning they have barely left the dock, yet in a few shots later they are seen far off the dock.

Quotes:

Captain Ron: [to Ben] Hey swab. C'mere. Listen up. Now, the way it works shipboard is, you do your job. You do it good, you get a better job. Maybe you get promoted from swab to mate.
[Ben nods]
Captain Ron: Alright. Get on it.
Captain Ron: [to Martin] Sort've an incentive kind of a deal, huh?
Martin Harvey: Ah. Good.
Captain Ron: Yeah, incentives are important. I learned that in rehab.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Psych: Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead (#2.16)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

JAMMIN'

What happened to this film??

Captain Ron was released in September of 1992, it had to compete with movies like Encino Man, Lethal Weapon 3 and The Crying Game. I think this may be the reason that it did so poorly at the box office. I saw the film when it was initially released in theaters, I thought it was great! Very possibly the funniest film of 1992... So why has it disappeared? Why has no one ever heard of it. Go rent the video, or better yet BUY IT, judge the movie for yourself, and then write Disney, Touchstones parent company and tell them that this movie really deserves more than just a lousy $10 video release, when is it gonna be on DVD? How about a CD soundtrack? What went wrong??