Captain Ron
Short description
Captain Ron is a 1992 adventure comedy about Martin Harvey, a mild-mannered Chicago businessman who learns he has inherited an old yacht. He takes his wife and two children to a small Caribbean island to collect the vessel and sail it to Miami, only to find it in poor condition. Lacking any sailing experience, the family hires a scruffy, eccentric skipper who calls himself Captain Ron, and his careless approach to running the boat soon lands them in one chaotic situation after another.
Thom Eberhardt directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with John Dwyer, following earlier work as director on Night of the Comet, The Night Before and Without a Clue. Kurt Russell plays the title role, with Martin Short as Martin, Mary Kay Place as his wife Katherine, and Benjamin Salisbury and Meadow Sisto as their children. Tom McGowan appears as Bill, and the film credits a cast of forty and a crew of ninety-one.
Made by Touchstone Pictures with Touchwood Pacific Partners 1, the film had a budget of about twenty-four million dollars and took roughly twenty-three million worldwide. Its critical reception was weak, with a critics' rating of 4.3 out of 10 from twenty-three reviews, and audience response was similarly muted: on TMDB it holds 5.6 out of 10 from a few hundred votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming took place in Chicago and Puerto Rico from February 16 to May 1992.
- The idea for the film was inspired by screenwriter John Dwyer's life story: in 1969, his father bought an old yacht and decided to sail it to Texas with his family, hiring a one-eyed sailor named Ron, who claimed to be an experienced captain but turned out to be a heavy drinker, earning him the nickname Ron Rico after a brand of cheap rum. During the voyage, all the yacht's electronics failed, they got lost, and ran into a storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
- When Kurt Russell was cast in the lead role, there was a plan to have John Carpenter direct. He later recounted that he would have accepted the offer – primarily because of the opportunity to film in the Caribbean.
- Captain Ron drives two cars in the film. Both are missing a headlight – on the same side as Ron's missing eye.
- A significant portion of Captain Ron's wardrobe was borrowed from Kurt Russell's own closet. Furthermore, the actor suggested many of Ron's defining characteristics – such as a penchant for wearing swim trunks, a raspy, pirate-like voice, and so on. Russell initially objected to the depiction of drinking, but was told it would be in keeping with his character, and he withdrew his objections.
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