Other Titles • Honeymoon in Vegas • Aber nicht mit meiner Braut... (1992)
Synopses for Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
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Private detective Jack Singer promised his mother, on her deathbed, that would never marry. Now, his girlfriend Betsy is threatening to leave him if he doesn't marry her. Jack decides, despite his fear and guilt, to give in to Betsy's demands. They fly off to Las Vegas where, in an attempt to postpone the wedding, Jack joins in a "hospitality" poker game with professional gambler Tommy Korman, who cheats Jack out of $65,000. Tommy offers Jack a deal: if Jack lends Tommy his girlfriend -- who coincidentally is the spitting image of Tommy's dead wife -- Tommy will forget about Jack's debt. Jack convinces Betsy to go along, and then, worried that he might lose Betsy forever, frantically tries to break up their weekend.
James Cann (The Godfather), Nicolas Cage (Face/Off) and Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex In The City) are three sides of a deliriously funny triangle in this "refreshing blast of comic lunacy" (WCBS-TV) that gambles with an offbeat premise, and hits the jackpot with big laughs!
Jack Singer (Cage) is terrified of commitment…but even more terrified of losing his beautiful schoolteacher fiancee Betsy (Parker). So as an act of faith, he takes the plunge and agrees to tie the knot in a quickie Vegas ceremony. But when he makes a bad $60,000 bet with mobster Tommy Korman (Cann), the marriage "knot" -- and all of Jack's dreams -- start unraveling fast. The only way that Korman will forgive the debt, he says, is if Jack will loan him Betsy for the rest of the weekend! It's yet another sucker bet for Jack though -- because Korman plans to win Betsy away for good!
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Writer-director Andrew Bergman is capable of funny, funny stuff, but Honeymoon in Vegas runs out of jokes long before it runs out of comic ideas. The result is a series of comedy concepts that never get past the one-liner stage and are distinctly unsatisfying. Still, there is plenty to be amused by in this story of a reluctant bridegroom (Nicolas Cage) who finally agrees to marriage, only to lose his fiancée (Sarah Jessica Parker) in a crooked poker game to a professional gambler (James Caan). The rest of the movie deals with his frantic attempt to get his fiancée back, while coping with a Vegas in the throes of an Elvis-impersonator convention. That's the funniest thing about the whole movie (most notably the team of parachuting Elvises at the end), but even that is drawn out in ways that are more clever than laughter-inducing.--Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
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