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Captain Ron (1992)

Captain Ron poster
Directed by
Thom Eberhardt
Genre
comedy film, action film, adventure film, children's film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 326 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family hires a disreputable sailor to help them navigate a yacht through the Caribbean. The sailor's oddball ways lead to a series of misadventures on the water.

comediclightheartedquirkyeasygoinggoofychaoticfunlaid-back

What happens

Captain Ron is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Thom Eberhardt, produced by David Permut, and co-written by John Dwyer and Thom Eberhardt for Touchstone Pictures. It stars Kurt Russell as the eponymous sailor with a quirky personality and a checkered past, alongside Martin Short and Mary Kay Place who hire him to sail a yacht through the Caribbean. It earned negative reviews and was a box-office disappointment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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