I like "Captain Ron" alot, but the ending is a bit confusing. So the family decides to stay on the boatuntil when? How a
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BilligerVogel — 19 years ago(August 03, 2006 09:49 PM)
Finances? Sell the house. School? "home-school". Besides, what better education could one get than real-world experience?
The engagement is no biggie to break off. As a matter of fact, Caroline doesn't seem to eager to get back to her fiance.
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ragreen259 — 19 years ago(October 02, 2006 05:59 AM)
"As a matter of fact, Caroline doesn't seem to eager to get back to her fiance"
To say the least! And she's supposed to be 16? What upper-middle class child gets engaged at 16 and announces it to her family? At 16, you pretty much do what your parents tell you to fine, you're engaged now get your ass on the boat, we're leaving for two years (the OP seems to have the point of view that someone not old enough to have a drivers' license, vote, smoke or drink is considered a free-willed adult, able to do whatever they want. Quite a reach (but it IS just a movie), but probably not any more than most "teen" movies, where everyone is almost 30, but still in high school.
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MovieBro — 19 years ago(September 15, 2006 07:57 AM)
Their a pretty well off family.Money is not an issue with them.So they sail around the world living life by the Captain Ron montra.
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moviestogo07 — 18 years ago(April 20, 2007 01:48 PM)
That's the beauty of it all!! They were all trapped in there lives with no adventure and they found an escape. All of your questions above do not matter. Another adventure was in front of them, the unknown. They were about to stray completely from the path of the normal life. It can still work out just fine, just in a different way.
Or if you don't like that maybe this will help.
The family would stay on the boat the rest of there lives or until they lost it again. Martin was a Writer he can do that any where. The wife can say screw her job, it stressed her out anyway. The kids could do home schooling with the out of work Mom. And the daughter,come on! She didn't give a damn about that guy. It was more of a pretend engagement anyway. -
jporter-6 — 18 years ago(October 30, 2007 11:04 AM)
That's the whole point: the family was trappedin an apparent huge
credit card debt, daughter engaged to a loser, a careers they apparently
did not like. They found freedom in hard work and the adventure of the
high seas. And Captain Ron was the key to all of the answers they
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DaytonaBob — 17 years ago(May 30, 2008 09:45 PM)
I sort of wondered the same thing myself but then realized, people make that sort of decision all the time. They just decide to make that change and then they do.
As well they could easily head back to Chicago ever so often if they wanted to or just sell the house, furniture and sail around the world or at least the Caribbean and South Pacific for years to come.
I didn't give it too much thought after a few minutes.
LOVE the movie and would love to see a sequel although I have no idea of how they could to it this many years later.
They who give up liberty to
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wanderer26 — 15 years ago(August 01, 2010 03:32 AM)
It's called willing suspension of disbelief. You need it for most movies.
Or if you prefer, they sail around for a few years until the internet's big, then they hit up a port where there's an internet cafe and sell their house on ebay or craigslist.
And as others here have mentioned, people cut ties with the everyday grind all the time. Hell, all my belongings fit into a big backpack and I haven't had a real home since I left my parents' at the end of high school.
El vino did flow David Brent,
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JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies — 15 years ago(December 19, 2010 04:59 AM)
First off, complaining about realism in a film like this is particularly idiotic.
But aside from that, are you not aware that in the actual world, there are people who have decided they've had enough of the normal game and give it up to do things like live on a boat, traveling around and doing things their own way, on their own time, etc.?
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mfiskey55 — 14 years ago(March 07, 2012 01:42 PM)
My take on the ending is that it isn't supposed to "make sense". That's the beauty of the way the movie ended. They 'could either sell the boat, go back to Chicago and their normal lifeor don't'. They chose the freedom and adventure that comes with sailing the high seas. I love this movie and the decision they make in that scene makes me jealous every time. What a spontaneous life changing decision. I think many of us would LOVE to do something like that, but most of us don't because we have jobs & families & houses & mortgages, etc. to deal with. But wouldn't it be fun and exciting to take that plunge? I think that's the feeling they wanted the audience to have with this ending. Life is too short, if you don't stop to enjoy it every now and then, it'll pass you by.
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goofingoff47 — 14 years ago(March 08, 2012 05:04 AM)
First offgood to see activity on this board again.
And to Mfiskey55, well written post. Our kids are grown & on their own, and this movie reminds us of good times with them when they were little, vacations, "adventures", the spontaneity of life. It's a great family movie, colorful, cheerful & I really like the soundtrack too. -
Besides, theres a HUGE EFFING LAKE in chicago!