On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancée. Suddenly the man is insanely jealous, and pursues his fiancée and her rich companion, but finds pitfalls in his path as the gambler tries to delay his interference.
cast
Nicolas Cage as Jack Singer
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[Trying to remember how to open his parachute]
Jack Singer: Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red. Yellow then red.
Andrew Bergman has been around making comedies for a long time, but in HONEYMOON IN VEGAS he seems more like a new and talented amateur than a seasoned professional. Bergman wrote and directed SO FINE and THE FRESHMAN, both of which jabbed at bad taste in American popular culture. With HONEYMOON IN VEGAS he has stopped his little jabs and pulled out a meat slicer to go after the cult of Elvis worshippers. Not that his basic plot has anything at all to do with Elvis: he uses Elvis just to create a comic background for his real story.