Captain Ron
The story tells about a family in Chicago. They inherits the yacht formerly owned by Clark Gable. They decide to sail it from the island of Ste. Pomme de Terre to Miami, and they sail with the assistance of Captain Ron and their lives will never be the same again.
26 March 1950, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1 November 1951, New York City, New York, USA
26 August 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 February 1947, Bolivar, Venezuela
30 July 1941, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
24 March 1961, Caguas, Puerto Rico
4 July 1960, Nederlander, Colorado, USA
17 March 1951, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
23 September 1947, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
13 November 1933, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
2 December 1954, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
May 22, 2012
Director Eberhardt does nothing to elevate this from being anything other than a boring TV movie, and I'm sure if Kurt Russell wasn't in it, that's exactly where it would have premiered.June 24, 2006
Queasy ocean-going comedy, not helped by Kurt's Robert Newton impersonation.November 22, 2016
A bland, seagoing, feature-length sitcom which recycles the displaced-dad theme from the studio's recent hit What About Bob? to little effect.May 16, 2006
Eminently missable family entertainment.November 22, 2016
There's not much worth noting about this Disney attempt at maritime comedy.November 22, 2016
Captain Ron is a movie about trapped suburbanites who break out into romantic seas, but it never really leaves suburbia... Like the Cap'n himself, this movie guzzles up its dreams and ignores the busted engine.May 20, 2003
The scenery is pretty but the movie never makes one wish to be in it.November 22, 2016
Any movie that features a dramatic actor like Kurt Russell playing straight man to a goofball like Martin Short already is sailing on choppy waters.May 25, 2004
Kurt Russell is the only thing that makes this movie tolerable - and just barely at that.November 22, 2016
Russell puts in a worthy performance as the irrepressible Ron and Martin Short is typically neurotic as the father.January 04, 2005
Forced Kurt Russell, Marty Short comedy.January 01, 2000
If we lived in a just universe, Captain Ron, a farce filmed in and around the Devil's Triangle, would simply have vanished into another dimension.