Captain Ron
A family in Chicago inherits the yacht formerly owned by Clark Gable. They decide to sail it from the island of Ste…
- Director: Thom Eberhardt
- Genre:Adventure / Comedy
- Runtime:100 minutes
Cast
Kurt Russell : Captain Ron
Martin Short : Martin Harvey
Mary Kay Place : Katherine Harvey
Benjamin Salisbury : Benjamin Harvey
Meadow Sisto : Caroline Harvey
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Martin Harvey (Martin Short) is a middle aged man living in Chicago with his wife, Katherine (Mary Kay Place), and two children Ben (Benjamin Salisbury) and Caroline (Meadow Sisto). While at work, he receives a package explaining the death of his uncle who bought a yacht from the Clark Gable estate, and that he is going to inherit the yacht. He then decides to find out how much it is worth, and goes home to inform his wife. After some hesitation, they finally decide to take their kids and go down to the island of Ste. Pomme de Terre to see the boat, after they find out that their daughter has gotten engaged to her presumable boyfriend of the time.
When they arrive at the boat’s destination, they discover the boat is in pretty bad shape. Upon hearing this, the yacht broker decides not to send an experienced captain to help them get the boat to Miami so he can check its condition, but unknown to the Harvey family, gets a local to be their guide and captain. Captain Ron (Kurt Russell) then pulls up a bit later to check out the condition of the yacht. To the surprise of the family, he is a one-eyed man with a very laid back attitude. When Captain Ron discovers that the car he has borrowed has fallen off of the dock and into the ocean, he decides to set sail right then and there to escape from the man from whom he borrowed it.
As the story progresses, we learn that Captain Ron is very different than anything the family has ever experienced. He has no problem taking Ben’s money in a game of Monopoly, giving him beers to drink (Ben is only 11 years old) and then charging him for them later, but shows a surprising loyalty to Martin, who he only refers to as “Boss”. Martin, however, doesn’t like Captain “Moron”, as he calls him in his diary. It appears that he is getting strangely close to his family, and also believes that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. The other family members learn to love Captain Ron and his quirky life style.
While on their way to Miami, the family decides to make the most of it, and stop off at certain islands of the Caribbean, but learn that Captain Ron doesn’t know how to navigate. While on a random island that they mistook for another place, Martin becomes infuriated with Captain Ron and decides to go back to the boat instead of staying with his family to make the most of it. Captain Ron warns him to stay on the path, because of “guerrillas”, which Martin shrugs off as ridiculous, believing him to mean “gorillas”, but the angered Martin strays from the path only to run into guerrillas led by General Armando (Sunshine Logroño). Captain Ron eventually bargains for Martin’s freedom by giving them a lift to the next island, and receiving some firearms in return to fight off pirates. This only angers Martin more, as he declares there will be no firearms on his boat and tosses them overboard, before realizing that without them, he is indeed going to be forced to give the revolutionaries a ride. Read more
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