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4.3/10
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Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.
- Awards
- 2 wins total
Jordi Mollà
- Jules Bergman
- (as Jordi Molla)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn an interview with GQ John Travolta reportedly drank the sea water claiming it made him: "feel alive."
- GoofsAt approximately 1:29:50, someone with the DEA is typing a "SUBPOENA," on a typewriter. They typed, "SUBPEONA," clearly misspelled. The camera holds on the word for about two seconds.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Half in the Bag: The Fanatic (2019)
- SoundtracksLet's Take Off
Written by Bob Mair and Nick Vincent
Performed by Jimmy Carnelli
Courtesy of Black Toast Music
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This is a bizarre movie. It starts out with crazy intensity between Old John Travolta and Old Other Guy who ends up standing menacingly by his truck just staring at him.
Then it goes back in time. Travolta is in trouble with the mob and has to get his family out of town. So he goes to Florida and... immediately gets super involved in speedboat racing for some reason? People watching and clapping and him getting hooked right away are kind of ridiculous, especially if Travolta's supposed to be on the run - why enter and win a bunch of boat races and get that kind of attention?
But I guess it's OK because this hood fresh in town gets the OK from Meyer Lansky himself, for some reason.
Lots more pointless boat racing. He cheats on his wife for like a decade and she knows but does nothing about it I guess. His son goes in the hospital while he's off winning one of his races. His boat racing gets in the way of his mob duties and Meyer gets mad at him.
It's so bizarre and Travolta LOOKS so bizarre in his various ages in this movie but it at least kept our attention. Until we turned it off.
Then it goes back in time. Travolta is in trouble with the mob and has to get his family out of town. So he goes to Florida and... immediately gets super involved in speedboat racing for some reason? People watching and clapping and him getting hooked right away are kind of ridiculous, especially if Travolta's supposed to be on the run - why enter and win a bunch of boat races and get that kind of attention?
But I guess it's OK because this hood fresh in town gets the OK from Meyer Lansky himself, for some reason.
Lots more pointless boat racing. He cheats on his wife for like a decade and she knows but does nothing about it I guess. His son goes in the hospital while he's off winning one of his races. His boat racing gets in the way of his mob duties and Meyer gets mad at him.
It's so bizarre and Travolta LOOKS so bizarre in his various ages in this movie but it at least kept our attention. Until we turned it off.
- gregberne11
- Feb 13, 2019
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Box office
- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $5,812
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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