Out to Sea (1997)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Martha Coolidge

Writer (WGA):

Robert Nelson Jacobs (written by)

Release Date:

2 July 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Get ready to Rumba!

Plot:

A failed gambler, intent on meeting a rich widow, tricks his widowed brother-in-law into boarding a cruise ship as dance hosts.

Plot Keywords:

Cruise | Widower | Dance | Cruise Ship | Brother In Law

Cast

Jack Lemmon	...	Herb Sullivan
Walter Matthau	...	Charlie Gordon
Dyan Cannon	...	Liz LaBreche
Gloria DeHaven	...	Vivian (as Gloria De Haven)
Brent Spiner	...	Gil Godwyn
Elaine Stritch	...	Mavis LaBreche
Hal Linden	...	Mac Valor
Donald O'Connor	...	Jonathan Devereaux
Edward Mulhare	...	Cullen Carswell
Rue McClanahan	...	Mrs. Ellen Carruthers
Alexandra Powers	...	Shelly
Sean O'Bryan	...	Allan
Esther Scott	...	Maria
Allan Rich	...	Sebastian
Estelle Harris	...	Bridget

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language and sex-related humor.

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Italian | Japanese | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:PG | Iceland:L | Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #35345) | Argentina:13 | Portugal:M/12 | Sweden:Btl | Singapore:PG | UK:12 (video premiere)

Filming Locations:

Castaic Lake State Recreation Area - 32132 Ridge Route Road, Castaic, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Donald O'Connor's last film appearance.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Toward the end of the movie, when Herb fires off the flare, the scene cuts to the plane where there's normal conversation with no engine sounds whatsoever.

Quotes:

Herb: [to Gil Godwyn while in the lifeboat] /Listen to me, you sniveling little brown-nose. I have lived for 71 years, I've fought a war, I've buried my wife and I've survived 48 white sales at Gimble's. So if you think a little fop like you is gonna stop me, you've got another think coming!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Hollywood Remembers Walter Matthau (2001) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Celebration

Amusing But Old Fashioned

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau were something of a double act in the 50s and 60s and while it may have been old hat to see them appearing in movies together in the 1990s they do work off each other rather well with Matthau being a hubristic con man and Lemmon being a slightly neurotic up standing citizen

Did I say old hat ? because OUT TO SEA is a very old fashioned film . It contains some mild swearing but apart from that the script could easily have been written in 1960 something . Maybe it was since we're treated to go go dancers and rumba . Did I say this is an old fashioned film ? Where OUT TO SEA works best is when Herb and Charlie interact with the camp and authoritarian Gil who doesn't take any nonsense . As for the negative points i will confess to remembering that I liked it at the time but I'm having difficulty trying to remember why which is a sign of a forgettable movie