Themes: Cons and Scams, Nothing Goes Right, Battle of the Sexes
Main Cast: Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall, Eric Stoltz
Release Year: 2005
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
One of television's most beloved sitcoms gets an overhaul for the big screen in this comedy. Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) is a New York City bus driver who has great ambitions and plans to make something of himself one day. However, Ralph's big ideas usually take the form of half-baked get-rich-quick schemes which invariably fail, much to the chagrin of his long-suffering wife, Alice (Gabrielle Union). But Ralph always has a loyal ally in his best friend and upstairs neighbor, Ed Norton (Mike Epps), a sewer worker who also has a wife who is weary of his antics, Trixie (Regina Hall). Alice and Trixie have a plan to come up with the down payment for a dream house: a suburban duplex that's being eyed by a shady developer (Eric Stoltz). But when Ralph and Ed decide to spend their savings on training a stray mutt for the New Jersey dog races, they threaten both couples' futures. Based on the classic Jackie Gleason and Art Carney series, The Honeymooners also stars John Leguizamo. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Colman Corish - Art Director, Nancy Foy - Casting, Susie Farris - Casting, Niles Kirchner - Co-producer, Joan Bergin - Costume Designer, Konrad Jay - First Assistant Director, John Schultz - Director, John Pace - Editor, Hal Ross - Executive Producer, Mike Epps - Executive Producer, Cedric the Entertainer - Executive Producer, Richard Gibbs - Composer (Music Score), Jennifer Hawks - Musical Direction/Supervision, Charles Wood - Production Designer, Shawn Maurer - Cinematographer, David T. Friendly - Producer, Julie Durk - Producer, Eric C. Rhone - Producer, Marc Turtletaub - Producer, Kieran Horgan - Sound/Sound Designer, Barry W. Blaustein - Screenwriter, David Sheffield - Screenwriter, Don Rhymer - Screenwriter, Danny Jacobson - Screenwriter, Eliza Solesbury - Set Decorator
The Kramdens and the Nortons are working-class neighbors, with bus driver Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) and sewage worker Ed Norton (Epps) being best friends. They are constantly coming up with new schemes to get rich quick, with Ralph being the mastermind.
The driving forces behind their get-rich-quick schemes are their wives, Trixie (Hall) and Alice (Union), and both Ralph and Ed are trying to make enough money so they can afford the homes they think they deserve. While they are trying to achieve this, Alice and Trixie make ends meet by waitressing at the local diner.
The opening sequence is said to take place in 1999 yet Ralph's bus also had the current New York license plate, known as the Empire Plate. This wasn't issued until 2000. In 1999, his bus would still have the prior Liberty Plate with the Statue of Liberty on it.
