Gone Fishin' (film)

Infobox Film
name = Gone Fishin'


caption = A promotional film poster for "Gone Fishin"'.
director = Christopher Cain
producer = Roger Birnbaum
Julie Bergman Sender
writer = J. J. Abrams
Jill Mazursky
starring = Danny Glover
Joe Pesci
music = Randy Edelman
cinematography = Dean Semler
editing = Jack Hofstra
distributor = Hollywood Pictures
released = May 30, 1997
runtime = 97 min.
country = United States
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0119214

"Gone Fishin"' is a 1997 comedy film starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover as two bumbling fishing enthusiasts. Nick Brimble, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield, and Willie Nelson co-star.

Plot

The film begins with Joe Waters (Pesci) and Gus Green (Glover) as two bumbling buddies who love fishing with a passion. In the first scene, we are introduced to Gus and Joe when they are around nine years old. They are sitting down by the water, and Joe pulls out a Cuban Cigar he found in his fathers bedroom. After Joe lights it with a Zippo lighter, he begins to cough and gack on the smoke. Gus takes the cigar away from Joe, and tosses it near an old metal pipe. Unfortunately it turns out the old metal pipe opens up as a tunnel thats filled with oil. The cigar sets it ablaze, and a huge ball of fire shoots through the pipe, into the tunnel, and makes its way to the city of Newark that sits behind the water. Joe and Gus look in the distance and see the ball of fire exploded into a telephone line, and the power goes out in the city. Gus stares shocked, while all Joe says is "Holy smokes, eh Gus?" The scene then skips to 36 years later where we see Gus operating a crane lifting big wood logs in a lumber yard. Joe then pulls in driving his Blue Barracuda '68' Plymouth, and honks the horn for Gus to jump in. Gus becomes distracted, pulls the wrong lever on the cranes controlls causing it to eject the big wood logs high in the air, and crash into the lumberyard managers office building. Gus flees from the scene, and hops into Joes car as they drive off laughing together. When they arrive home (they live in a house thats divided into two halfs, one for Joe's family and one for the family of Gus) they begin packing for their fishing trip to The Everglades down in Florida. As they pack their boat full of beer and other provisions they may need for the trip, their wives warn them that Thanksgiving is the next comming Thursday, and that if they arent back by then, they will "kill" them. Joe and Gus set their clocks for 4:30 AM, and they begin their drive from Newark to Florida. When they arrive in the everglades, they pull in to a diner for some breakfast. Once inside they pick a seat, and ask the waitress to bring them some breakfast. A man sitting in the booth behind them starts to make a friendly conversation with Joe. As they are talking a waitress sees the man steal Joes car keys, and slip them into his pocket. Before the waitress can stop him, the man goes outside, and speeds off in Joes car, as their boat un-hinges from the back, and crashes through the diner wall.

Filming accident

During production of the film, stuntwoman Janet Wilder was killed when a speedboat being made to jump a ramp landed in a crowd of extras. Wilder's husband and father-in-law were also injured. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928584/bio Janet Wilder - Biography ] ]

See also

* "Gone Fishin' (soundtrack)"

References

External links

*Imdb title|id=0119214|title=Gone Fishin'