Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) - Stars flare up in breezy romcom

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The three stars stand in a fix on top of a cardcastle in a stylized Las Vegas landscape on this poster for Andrew Bergman's Honeymoon in Vegas

Our hero is a private investigator in New York with a mother complex, who wants to keep his marriage-lusting girlfriend; so he invites her with him to Las Vegas, but he soon winds up in a real jam!

 

Honeymoon in Vegas is written and directed by Andrew Bergman (So Fine (1981)).

Sarah Jessica Parker (Failure to Launch (2006)), Nicolas Cage (Valley Girl (1983)) and James Caan (The Godfather (1972)) give charismatic performances that make this light-legged matter an if not exactly bubbly then at least entertaining and occasionally funny and sweet film. With Peter Boyle (Steelyard Blues (1973)) and Pat Morita (The Stoneman (2002)) in laughable satirical Hawaiian parts plus plot unlikelihood and Elvis impersonators galore, - all helping to save Honeymoon in Vegas from ever taking itself seriously.

 

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 25 mil. $

Box office: 35.2 mil. $ - North America only

= Uncertain but likely a flop (projected return of 2.16 times its cost)

[Honeymoon in Vegas was released 28 August (USA) and runs 96 minutes. Shooting took place from August - November 1991 in New York, California, Las Vegas, Nevada and in Hawaii. The film opened #1 to a 7.1 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another weekend at #1 and then one more in the top 5 (#2), grossing 35.2 mil. $. The international gross numbers are regrettably not public. With a projected international gross of 19 mil. $, the total gross of 54.2 mil. $ gives the film flop status. It was nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Roger Ebert gave it a 3.5/4 star review, translating to 2 notches over this one. Bergman returned with It Could Happen to You (1994). Caan returned in The Program (1993); Cage in Amos & Andrew (1993); and Parker in Hocus Pocus (1993). Honeymoon in Vegas is fresh at 66 % with a 6.10/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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