Haunted Honeymoon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Haunted Honeymoon
Image:Haunted honeymoon.jpg Haunted Honeymoon promotional movie poster
Directed by	Gene Wilder
Produced by	Susan Ruskin
Written by	Gene Wilder Terence Marsh
Starring	Gene Wilder Gilda Radner Dom Deluise Jonathan Pryce
Music by	John Morris
Editing by	Christopher Greenbury
Distributed by	Orion Pictures
Release date(s)	1986
Running time	82 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
All Movie Guide profile
IMDb profile

Haunted Honeymoon is a 1986 comedy movie which stars Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom Deluise, and Jonathan Pryce. Wilder also served as the film's writer and director. This is also known as the last production Gilda Radner starred in before she died of ovarian cancer.

[edit] Plot

Larry Abbot (Wilder) and Vickie Pearle (Radner) are radio stars in the Manhattan Mystery Theater who decide to get married. Larry has been plagued with on-air panic attacks and speech impediments lately since he proposed to Vickie. Vickie thinks it's just pre-wedding jitters, but his affliction could get them both fired. Larry's uncle, Dr. Paul Abbot, decides that Larry needs to be cured of his neurotic speech defect and exaggerated panic attacks. Paul decides to treat him with a form of shock therapy to "scare him to death" in much the same way someone might try to startle someone out of hiccups. Larry chooses the castle-like mansion located in rural upstate New York in which he grew up as the site for their wedding. There, Vickie gets to meet Larry's ecentric family.

The head of the family is Great-Aunt Kate (Deluise), who plans to leave all her money to Larry. Larry's cousins Charles, Nora, Susan, cross-dressing Francis Jr. , Uncle Francis Sr., and the estate's butler Pfister and his wife Rachel. Joining them is Sylvia, Larry's old girlfriend who is currently dating Charles, and Montego the Magnificent, Susan's magician husband. Paul decides this is the perfect opportunity to set his plan to "cure" Larry in motion and he gets the other family members in on the plan. Unfortunatly for all of them, something else more sinister and unexpected is lurking at the Abbot Estates. The pre-wedding party becomes a real life version of Larry and Vickie's radio murder mysteries.