An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ted Danson | ... | Washington Bellamy | |
| Mary Steenburgen | ... | Katherine Bellamy | |
| Ryan Todd | ... | Andy Bellamy | |
| Eric Schweig | ... | Ernest Ironplume | |
| Cathy Moriarty | ... | Lorraine | |
| Max Gail | ... | Jerome Bellamy | |
| Lisa Jane Persky | ... | Alicia Frank | |
| J.C. Quinn | ... | Bartender | |
| John Schuck | ... | Officer | |
| Don Swayze | ... | Local | |
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Gene Borkan | ... | Trucker with Cigarettes |
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Ron Burke | ... | Ranger |
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Ramsey Ellis | ... | School Kid |
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Frank Carl Fisher Jr. | ... | Fred Frook |
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Suzanne Ircha | ... | Waitress |
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An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family. Written by Steve Derby <sderby@sdeco.com>
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fear | road trip | on the road | mother son relationship | husband wife relationship |Taglines:
Sometimes the journey of becoming a family can be as difficult as going to the moon.Genres:
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18 November 1994 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$5,128, 6 November 1994Gross USA:
$11,669Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$11,669Company Credits
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Whoopi Goldberg was originally set to star as Katherine Bellamy. At the time, Goldberg was dating Ted Danson who would later marry her replacement in the film Mary Steenburgen. See more »Goofs
At the gas station, the attendant seems to open the hood (which is actually the trunk) by popping something like on a normal car. The trunk and hood on an Amphicar are opened using a large key about 10" long that must be inserted and turned individually - two locks in front and one in the back. See more »Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Interview with the Vampire/Pontiac Moon/The Santa Clause/Heavenly Creatures/Dr. Strangelove (1994) See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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B"H Being an old-car nut, this movie appealed to me because of the '49 Pontiac Eight that is one of the "stars" of the movie. Ted Danson's acting was a little overdone, and some of the plot was thin. My kids hate the flick.
However, watching Washington and Andy drive through the 1969 West in the Pontiac was fun. Besides the '49 Pontiac, there was an Amphicar (driven by Mary Steenburgen) as well as some neat oldies from the '40s sitting outside the Bellamy's home which Washington kept as collector cars.
Ultimately it was fun to watch the Bellamy family together again, being saved from a police manhunt as they drove the Amphicar across a lake to Canada.
Two parts of the movie were ridiculous; one was Andy Bellamy in his own father's science class, and putting a "455" V8 into the old Chief would have required major body modifications as well as a new transmission, impossible to do in a single night.
Inspiring was watching both the astronauts and the Bellamys preparing for their voyages at the same time, the liftoff and that shift of the old Hydra-Matic Drive into DR was a lot of fun to watch.