Gone Fishin' (1997)
Director:
Christopher Cain
Tagline:
« Even the fish are laughing! »
Actors:
Joe Waters
Gus Green
Rita
Angie
Billy ‘Catch’ Pooler
Rating:
(11’153 votes)
(11’153 votes)
Quotes:
« Gus Green: I was just thinking. Say, 100 years ago, we were goin' fishin'. This is what we would be doin'.
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« Joe Waters: What do you mean?
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« Gus Green: Yeah, think about it. This is how we'd get our boat to the water. Now, we can't let that guy ruin our Florida vacation, eh?
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« Joe Waters: Hey, maybe you're right.
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« Gus Green: Yeah, and a 1,000 years ago, we wouldn't have paved roads.
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« Joe Waters: Hey, that's right, Gus. It would be filled with rocks and everything, right?
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« Gus Green: Yeah. And the boats would be heavier.
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« Joe Waters: That's right. We've got the latest technology wood. This boat's light, right, Gus?
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« Gus Green: Yeah, and guess what, Joe? A million years ago, we wouldn't have wheels for our trailer.
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« Joe Waters: And we wouldn't even have the friggin' trailer, right Gus? And Gus, if it was that long ago, our brains would be smaller. We wouldn't think about of anything like that.
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[Wrestling with an alligator]
« Joe Waters: Spin him around, Gus I'll kick him in the nuts.
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« Gus Green: He's a she, Joe. She ain't got no nuts.
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« Joe Waters: [fire engines zoom by, sirens blaring] There must be a fire or something, huh?
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Trailer:
Trailer
Runtime:94 minutes
Plots:
Two lifelong fishing buddies must overcome a series of obstacles to enjoy their ultimate fishing trip.
Two working-class buddies, Joe and Gus, win a contest and get a free fishing trip. When they arrive, everything goes wrong – hurricanes, stolen car, blow-ups and other catastrophes follow them.
Joe and Gus are established early on as two of life’s losers. As children, they are shown in opening sequences blowing up an industry as they toss a cigarette in an open pipe. Years later, as adults they get to go on a fishing vacation that you know has to go wrong. First, they are conned out of their car keys by a con man killer, who preys on older women. As they give pursuit, they team up with two young women who are also after the killer who took all of Arquette’s mother’s jewelry and money. Many disasters later, the two are faced with the killer and all of his loot. Willie Nelson makes a brief appearance as a philosopher fisherman that the two amateur fishermen worship.
