Carol Kane, Danny Glover, Edythe Davis

Gone Fishin' has been called "the Ishtar of the '90s," but that's giving it too much credit. Danny Glover and Joe Pesci (who could have used their Lethal Weapon series buddy Mel G...( read more  read more... )ibson in here) star as slow-witted friends who take their dream fishing vacation in the Florida Everglades and end up having a series of disasters. Trouble is, director Christopher Cain can't get a handle on any of the comedy essentials for a project such as this. The result is a badly timed, badly toned, unfunny movie wasting a lot of great talent across the board. --Tom Keogh

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PG, 95 min.

Directed by: Christopher Cain

Release Date: May 30, 1997

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  • March 7, 2008
    saw this with my dad
  • August 25, 2007
    The writers were hoping to re-create Pesci & Glover's "Lethal Weapon" chemistry but failed miserably. I couldn't even finish watching this one!
  • March 28, 2007
    Very funny film
  • November 28, 2006
    Great movie, very funny
  • January 9, 2008
    It was good.It was weird,but there were some funny parts.
  • October 22, 2009
    It had 1 or 2 funny parts but thats it
  • August 15, 2009
    Gone Fishing is about a couple of guys (Joe Pesci and Danny Glover) who win a contest and get to go on a free fishing trip. However, the fishing trip doesn't go as smoothly as planned. Their car gets stolen, there's a hurricane, and many other catastrophes plague them while they'...( read more)re supposed to be fishing.
    Gone Fishin' is a decent comedy movie and has some funny parts such as the scene when Joe Pesci gets struck by lightning, but overall it's not that great. Joe Pesci and Danny Glover are two of the best comedy movie actors and Gone Fishin' is a subpar movie for both of them. It is interesting to see how the movie will turn out and what's gonna happen next when they start getting plagued by all the disasters, but the comedy portion of the movie for the most part is just not there. None of the jokes are funny and what I really didn't like about it was that the name of the movie is Gone Fishin', but they never actually get to do any fishing the entire movie!

    If you've seen other Joe Pesci or Danny Glover movies, you'll find out that Gone Fishin' is not that great of a movie for them when you compare it to such movies as Home Alone and Lethal Weapon 4. However, I guess I would recommend renting this movie if you're dying to see a new comedy movie. NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000. It's indeed a subpar movie for Pesci and Glover's standards, but still worth a watch.
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  • July 22, 2009
    i was 7 but it was probably dumb
  • July 15, 2009
    This movie cracks me up--lol--if it can go wrong it will go wrong in this movie--it's a family favorite--lol

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  • sportstar691
    March 22, 2007
    I see noone else is saying anything bout this movie but this is really really funny, i remember at one point i was actually rolling along the floor. I cant believe not many people have heard of this

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