97 minutes
12/11/2008
Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ad in a Boston newspaper. The loser of a coin toss must get married and take in the other two as boarders. But upon the arrival of the Nantucket woman selected from the applicants, the captains get cold feet.
David Carradine
as Capt. Zebulon Hedge
Rip Torn
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
Bruce Dern
as Capt. Perez Ryder
Mariel Hemingway
as Martha
Charles Durning
as John Bartlett
Jason Alan Smith
as Ralph Hazeltine
Christy Scott Cashman
as Elisabeth Preston
Angelica Page
as Melissa Busteed
John Savage
as Web Saunders
Julie Harris
as Melodeon Player
Stephen Russell
as Luther Norris
Stephen Mailer
as Squealer Wixon
Donald Foley
as Bluey Bachelder
Miles Herter
as Dr. Palmer
Jonathan Edwards
as Rev. Perley
Beverly Bentley
as Mrs. Small
Lila Dupree
as Pasha Norris
Ryan Stanger
as Ben
William Lyman
as Solomon Bangs
Charles Powicki
as Young Boy
Frank
as Lorenzo the cat
Brutus
as Web Saunder's dog