Overview :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, along with their best friends Ed and Trixie Norton, they seem to 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.
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Filmireland - This is certainly a film that you will enjoy watching, though it takes a little time to be drawn into the plot. Don't be put off by the camera-shaking and the occasional rough-cuts between scenes, these techniques... more...
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Less than five minutes into The Honeymooners — an adaptation of the classic TV show as loose as Jackie Gleason's trousers on Art Carney — the movie announces its collapse. ''I'll take you to the moon,'' coos soon-to-be-wed NYC bus driver Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) to his intended, Alice Gibson (Gabrielle Union — looking way too young for him). The pop-eyed marital violence of the series is reduced to a cuddly come-on that reveals the craven synthesis behind this whole venture. It's downright creepy to promise Alice the moon, when we all remember her original mode of transport. more...
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