# Captain Ron

Captain Ron is a 1992 film about a Chicagoan who inherits an old yacht. He, his wife, daughter and son fly to a Caribbean island and hire a dubious Captain Ron to sail them on an adventure to Miami.
    Directed by Thom Eberhardt. Written by John Dwyer and Thom Eberhardt.

## Captain Ron

* Alright, that's more like it, now you're talking! You can do it, mates! I've never seen such sailors. Not in all my born days, I ain't. Naturals! My God, everyone of you, naturals... [beat; to himself] We're gonna fucking die!
* [after losing his glass eye] It never did fit anyway. Guess you gotta get 'em custom made.
* Hey! Uh, leg feels a lot better now, boss. I always been a fast healer, you know. 'Course I believe in Jesus, so that helps.
* A diesel loves her oil same as a sailor loves rum.

## Martin Harvey

* [Captain Ron has left Martin at the wheel to pilot the boat alone. His wife comes and stands next to him] Isn't this great? Look at this! Open ocean, uncharted islands... Who knows what's waiting for us out there? Come here. [hugs his wife] Log entry: Day two. The adventure begins! What a thrill it is to be leaving the turmoil of civilization behind us!

## Dialogue

    Martin Harvey: We don't know how to drive a boat.
    Captain Ron: The best way to find out Kitty is to get her out on the ocean. If anything is going to happen, it's going to happen out there.
    Katherine Harvey: But we don't even have supplies.
    Martin Harvey: What do you think about Captain Ron? I mean, uh, I would be certainly willing to provide someone else if you're not comfortable with him. I think it's important that you're, uh...
    Katherine Harvey: No, I think he's fine... I mean, he seems to know what he's doing. He was in the Navy.
    Martin Harvey: Yeah, yeah, all right... What about the eye thing, though?
    Katherine Harvey: Oh, honey! I would never fire anybody because they were physically challenged. Frankly, I admire him. I mean, really, when you think about the way he parked that boat. It was unbelievable - I mean, especially for somebody with no depth perception as we know it.
    Martin Harvey: [not sounding completely convinced of that notion] Oh, yeah, yeah, he's good...
    Caroline Harvey: Captain Ron, I was wondering. Are we going to be going to any more "human" type places?
    Captain Ron: Well, you heard of St. Croix?
    Caroline Harvey: Yeah.
    Captain Ron: We're going to the island just to the left of it.
    Caroline Harvey: What's it called?
    Captain Ron: Ted's.
    Martin Harvey: [stressing to his family that they need to learn all the things about seamanship that Capt. Ron is trying to drill into them] You gotta' learn the basics.
    Captain Ron: And, you gotta' be prepared.
    Martin Harvey: That's right...
    Captain Ron: I'm not talkin' Boy Scout prepared, I mean big-time prepared.
    Martin Harvey: [downplaying it] Well, prepared for any kind of normal accident...
    Captain Ron: This is the Caribbean, guys. "El Caribe." The Spanish Main. The land of hoo-doo and voodoo and all kinda' weird shit.
    Benjamin Harvey: Whoa!
    [Benjamin has just moved Captain Ron's beer.]
    Captain Ron: Hey! Get your hands off that.
    Benjamin Harvey: I was just moving it, I wasn't going to drink it.
    Captain Ron: You're darn right you weren't, if you want a beer you get your own beer.
    Martin Harvey: Slow down! There's boats all over the place!
    Captain Ron: Don't worry. They'll get out of the way. I learned that driving the Saratoga.
    Benjamin Harvey: Man. What happened to your eye?
    Martin Harvey: Ben.
    Katherine Harvey: Sweetie, that's rude.
    Captain Ron: No, that's alright. Shark attack, swab.
    Benjamin Harvey: A shark ate your eye?
    Captain Ron: [telling how he lost his eye] Yeah, it happened when I went down off the coast of Australia.
    Katherine Harvey: Your boat sank?
    Captain Ron: No, no, no, no. Not my boat. My boss's boat. Yeah, we hit this reef. Huge son-of-a-bitch. Ran the whole coast.
    Katherine Harvey: Wait. The Great Barrier Reef?
    Captain Ron: You've heard of it, huh? Smart lady.
    Captain Ron: [to Ben] Hey swab. C'mere. Listen up. Now, the way it works shipboard is, you do your job. You do it good, you get a better job. Maybe you get promoted from swab to mate.
    [Ben nods]
    Captain Ron: Alright. Get on it.
    Captain Ron: [to Martin] Sort've an incentive kind of a deal, huh?
    Martin Harvey: Ah. Good.
    Captain Ron: Yeah, incentives are important. I learned that in rehab.
    Captain Ron: [in a heavy storm] The boss is right. We should be okay. 'Cause I know we're near land.
    Martin Harvey: Great, Cap. Great. Ya hear that? We're almost there. Explain to the kids how you know that, Captain Ron. Someone translate for General Armando.
    Captain Ron: Alright, now stay with me: When we left, we had just enough fuel to make it to San Juan. And now... we are out of fuel!
    Captain Ron: [playing Monopoly for money] Three houses, 375! That's 37 cents.
    Benjamin Harvey: Well that's... half the money I have left.
    Captain Ron: Yeah, shit happens. Cough it up.
    Martin Harvey: [Walks down to the Ship's Cabin] What's this?
    Caroline Harvey: Monopoly.
    Martin Harvey: No, this. [Holding a handgun]
    Benjamin Harvey: Two .45's and a Mac-10.
    Caroline Harvey: It's this total macho trip, Dad, just ignore it.
    Martin Harvey: Where'd they come from?
    Benjamin Harvey: Captain Ron traded the Guerrillas for 'em.
    Captain Ron: Yeah, I thought we'd ought to have them, Boss. Cause, you know, we're gettin' into pirate waters, here, pretty quick.
    Martin Harvey: What pirates?
    Captain Ron: Pirates, of the Caribbean.
    Martin Harvey: Been to Disney World one too many times, have we, Captain Ron?
    Benjamin Harvey: It's true, Dad! They come up on you in high speed boats!
    Captain Ron: You know, I don't believe I've been to Disney World...I've been to DollyWood.
    Benjamin Harvey: [being chased by pirates] All right! They're pirates of the Caribbean, just like you said Captain Ron.
    Captain Ron: Yeah, squirt. Pirates are easy to deal with. It's the Cuban cops that you gotta worry about. Grand theft auto is a major biggie here in Cuba.
    Martin Harvey: Grand theft auto? You stole this car?
    Captain Ron: Nah, I didn't steal it, boss. I borrowed it. Sort of...
    Katherine Harvey: What are we going to do?
    Martin Harvey: What can we do? Look around you. The sun is almost up. We are marooned in an unfriendly country. We have no luggage, no money, no passports and worse still... no reason or explanation for even being here!
    Katherine Harvey: But we have our boat.
    Martin Harvey: No dear. If you'll look again, you'll notice that the pirates have our boat.
    Caroline Harvey: Now, wait a minute. That's our boat. We should do something.
    Martin Harvey: What are you saying?
    Katherine Harvey: I think she's saying that if the pirates have our boat, we should take it back from them. I say we fight them.
    Martin Harvey: Bloodthirsty, heavily armed Cuban pirates against the Harvey clan? It would take a miracle.
    [just then a 1950s retro car speeds by them]
    Benjamin Harvey: Look! It's Captain Ron!

## Cast

* Kurt Russell — Captain Ron
* Martin Short — Martin Harvey
* Mary Kay Place — Katherine Harvey
* Benjamin Salisbury — Benjamin Harvey
* Meadow Sisto — Caroline Harvey
* Sunshine Logroño — General Armando
* Jorge Luis Ramos — General Armando's Translator
* J.A. Preston — Magistrate

## External links

* Captain Ron quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Captain Ron at Rotten Tomatoes
* Captain Ron at Mojo