Enter Tommy Korman (James Caan, silkily menacing), a wealthy, grieving widower with a creepy obsession. You see, Betsy is the spitting image of his late wife. And Tommy wants her. So he does what any rational billionaire would do: he lures Jack into a high-stakes poker game, wins $65,000 that Jack doesn’t have, and then offers a deal—Jack has 24 hours to pay up, or Tommy gets a weekend alone with Betsy. Oh, and Jack’s mother’s dying wish (voiced by Anne Bancroft in a cameo for the ages) was that he never marry.
Jack Singer (Nicolas Cage, pre-cage-meme-era, at his most charmingly manic) is a New York private eye with a crippling fear of marriage. His long-suffering girlfriend, Betsy (Sarah Jessica Parker, radiant and sharp as a stiletto heel), finally gets him to agree to a wedding. Their plan? A quick, quiet elopement in Las Vegas.
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starring Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, and James Caan. Enter Tommy Korman (James Caan, silkily menacing), a
: The DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 track is described as adequate but "no frills". Dialogue is clear, but the track lacks the immersive depth expected from modern HD releases.
Based on the 1992 film, this musical features a score by Tony-winner Jason Robert Brown So he does what any rational billionaire would
Commitment-phobic Jack Singer (Cage) takes his girlfriend Betsy (Parker) to Las Vegas to finally get hitched. However, a high-stakes poker game goes wrong, and Jack "loses" Betsy for the weekend to a wealthy gambler (Caan).
In an era of cynical deconstruction and thousand-hour streaming epics, Honeymoon in Vegas is a tight 96-minute reminder that movies used to be fun. It is a film about a man who literally sells his fiancée for a poker debt, and it ends with a parachuting Elvis sing-along.
If you are planning a real-life honeymoon and stumbled upon this article via take note: The Vegas of 1992 is not the Vegas of today.
Reviews of the high-definition transfer on the Blu-ray edition are mixed to negative: