Haunted Honeymoon
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 Haunted Honeymoon promotional movie poster |
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| Directed by | Gene Wilder |
| Produced by | Susan Ruskin |
| Written by | Gene Wilder Terence Marsh |
| Starring | Gene Wilder Gilda Radner Dom Deluise Jonathan Pryce |
| Music by | John Morris |
| Editing by | Christopher Greenbury |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 25 July 1986 |
| Running time | 82 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Haunted Honeymoon is a 1986 comedy movie starring Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom Deluise, and Jonathan Pryce. Wilder also served as the film's writer and director. The film also marked Gilda Radner's final appearance prior to her death of ovarian cancer in 1989.
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[edit] Plot
Larry Abbot (Wilder) and Vickie Pearle (Radner) are radio stars in the Manhattan Mystery Theater who decide to get married. Larry has been plagued with on-air panic attacks and speech impediments lately since he proposed to Vickie. Vickie thinks it's just pre-wedding jitters, but his affliction could get them both fired. Larry's uncle, Dr. Paul Abbot, decides that Larry needs to be cured of his neurotic speech defect and exaggerated panic attacks. Paul decides to treat him with a form of shock therapy to "scare him to death" in much the same way someone might try to startle someone out of hiccups. Larry chooses the castle-like mansion located in rural upstate New York in which he grew up as the site for their wedding. There, Vickie gets to meet Larry's eccentric family.
The head of the family is Great-Aunt Kate (Deluise), who plans to leave all her money to Larry. Larry's cousins are Charles, Nora, Susan, cross-dressing Francis Jr. , Uncle Francis Sr., and the estate's butler Pfister and his wife Rachel. Joining them is Sylvia, Larry's old girlfriend who is dating Charles, and Montego the Magnificent, Susan's magician husband. Paul decides this is the perfect opportunity to set his plan to "cure" Larry in motion and he gets the other family members in on the plan. Unfortunately for all of them, something else more sinister and unexpected is lurking at the Abbot Estates. The pre-wedding party becomes a real life version of Larry and Vickie's radio murder mysteries.
[edit] Cast of characters
- Gilda Radner as Vickie Pearle
- Gene Wilder as Larry Abbot
- Dom DeLuise as Aunt Katherine "Kate" Abbot
- Jonathan Pryce as Charles "Charlie" Abbot
- Bryan Pringle as Pfister, the Butler
- Peter Vaughan as Uncle Francis Abbot Sr.
- Eve Ferret as Sylvia, Charlie's wife
- Paul L. Smith as Dr. Paul Abbot, uncle
- Julann Griffin as Nora Abbot, Paul's wife
- Jim Carter as Montego, the Magician
- Jo Ross as Susan, Montego's wife
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Cousin Francis Jr.
- Billy J. Mitchell as Mickey, a cop
- R.J. Bell as Bill, a cop
- Ann Way as Rachel, Pfister's wife
- Will Kenton as Imposter/Werewolf
- Alastair Haley as Little Larry
- Sally Osborne as Mrs. Abbot (Larry's mother)
[edit] Reception
The movie was a financial flop only grossing $8,000,000 in America entering the box office at number 8, then slipping to 14 the following week. While Gilda Radner was struggling with cancer, she wrote the following about the film in her book It's Always Something: "On July 26, [1986] Haunted Honeymoon opened nationwide. It was a bomb. One month of publicity and the movie was only in the theaters for a week -- a box-office disaster."[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Radner, Gilda. It's Always Something. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. p. 56
[edit] Awards
Dom DeLuise won the Razzie, Golden Rasberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor
