Las vegas honeymoon film?

August 13, 2009 10:30 AM

Help me find this film: a couple get married in vegas, and spend there honeymoon there. The new wife then gambles away their savings in a (drunk?) craze.

I remember watching the start of this movie on TV a good while ago, probably late 90s. I seem to remember Tom Hanks being the husband, but a look through his filmography yields nothing. If I recall correctly, it's a romance/comedy/drama style film. You know the one.

I only saw the first 15-20 minutes, which makes things harder again. Any help is much appreciated.

posted by stepheno to media & arts (11 comments total)

Ouch. Excuse the typo: there their honeymoon there.
posted by stepheno at 10:31 AM on August 13

Not Lost in America, is it? Not Tom Hanks, but Albert Brooks. Similar hair, though.
posted by bunny hugger at 10:31 AM on August 13 [1 favorite]

Spot on—and so fast! Much appreciated.

(Also: I must take my memories with a grain of salt it seems. A big one.)
posted by stepheno at 10:33 AM on August 13

Lost in America (IMDB link; released in 1985) with Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty.
posted by mosk at 10:35 AM on August 13

She isn't drunk, just seriously bit by the gambling bug. "Two, two ... twenty-two!" Later, she's lost everything, and is explaining it to her husband at a table, at which she spots a card and reaches for it reflexively. "Oooh, Keno!"

"If you pick up that Keno card, I'll kill you. I'll kill you."
posted by adipocere at 10:42 AM on August 13

Note that her gambling spree (where she loses their entire nest egg) happens off-camera and while he is sleeping.
posted by Rash at 10:44 AM on August 13

Love this film.

"You could be the casino that cares."

"You want us to give you your money back?"

"I'm in marketing, I know how to make this work."

Or something like that. Albert Brooks made a couple of great films back there in the 80s.
posted by billysumday at 10:47 AM on August 13

Minor plot point correction: It actually isn't their honeymoon. After losing out on a big promotion the Albert Brooks character convinces his wife to ditch the rat race with him and live off their savings while traveling the country in a Winnebago. Vegas is their first stop.
posted by The Gooch at 11:12 AM on August 13

I've seen the future! And it's a bald-headed man from New York!

Lost in America is one of the best.
posted by The Deej at 11:17 AM on August 13

Minor plot point correction: It actually isn't their honeymoon. ... Vegas is their first stop.

True, but they do go to Vegas to get "re-married" and they rent a bridal suite. Well... the junior bridal suite, anyway. They plan on having a wedding ceremony, but it's late when they arrive so they decide to do it in the morning. So, a second honeymoon anyway.
posted by The Deej at 11:20 AM on August 13

What's weird is that there actually IS a film called Honeymoon In Vegas, but that starred Nicholas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker. And a team of skydiving Elvis Impersonators.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:49 PM on August 13