
New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden and his feisty wife Alice struggle to make ends meet. Despite Ralph's many get-rich-quick schemes/motivational-speaker tape series, they've managed to save some money, and with their best friends Ed and Trixie Norton, they have almost enough money for a down-payment on a Brooklyn duplex. However, when Ralph decides to try to impress Alice by making up what he's lost and augmenting their savings with another of his crazy schemes, he winds... (Full plot summary below)
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New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden and his feisty wife Alice struggle to make ends meet. Despite Ralph's many get-rich-quick schemes/motivational-speaker tape series, they've managed to save some money, and with their best friends Ed and Trixie Norton, they have almost enough money for a down-payment on a Brooklyn duplex. However, when Ralph decides to try to impress Alice by making up what he's lost and augmenting their savings with another of his crazy schemes, he winds up losing all their money and his marriage to boot--and it takes all his determination and love for Alice to get things on track again.
Leave your thoughts about The Honeymooners.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie's story actually does work as a story and not simply as a wheezy Hollywood formula. Sometimes you walk into a movie with quiet dread and walk out with quiet delight. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanIt honors the tone of that wonderful comedy while setting it in present-day New York City. |
| The New York TimesDana StevensSuperfluous though it may be, The Honeymooners is not so bad. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoThe Honeymooners isn't the worst of the endless spate of TV rehashes, but it still feels perfunctory. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldThis harmless but mediocre enterprise was doomed to failure from the start. Hollywood magic can do a lot, but it can't raise the dead. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonJust funny enough to mollify purists and amuse the uninitiated. |
| Dallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonNo less amusing than an average sitcom, but that's certainly not reason enough to buy a ticket. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonThe movie suffers from a devastating flaw for a comedy: It isn't very funny. |
| Miami HeraldPeter DebrugeWhat's missing is some faith in the audience's intelligence and, more importantly, the jokes. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardCedric is certainly the bright spot in this movie - personable, silly and lovable, with just enough of Gleason's girth, timing and humanity to make you wish he'd driven Ralph Kramden's bus onto the lot of a different movie. |