92 in the Shade

92 in the Shade (1975)

As The Temperature Rises, The Tension Mounts And Someone Just Might Get Killed.

A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.

Date of release
1975-08-22
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Thomas McGuane

Casting

Interesting facts

92 in the Shade is a 1975 American drama film written and directed by Thomas McGuane, based on his 1973 novel of the same name. It stars Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Elizabeth Ashley, Harry Dean Stanton, and Margot Kidder.

Production

Thomas McGuane directed the film and wrote the script. He was married to one of the film's female stars and had a scandalous affair with the other, as detailed in Elizabeth Ashley's autobiography Actress: Postcards from the Road.

The film is known for having two different versions, each with different endings. One has a happy ending in which Dance and Skelton fight while they're in the boat and Dance's gun gets thrown in the water, and then they both agree to stop their fight and become friends, but other version has darker ending in which Dance shoots and kills Skelton.

When we were coming to do the ending of 92 in the Shade, Warren and I tried to figure out what was going to happen, because the beginning didn't start off properly. McGuane had written it very specifically, where I get shot. I get the surprise of my life. And Warren didn't want to shoot me because he liked me too much. I said "Warren, that's offscreen.

Fonda said he was "not exactly thrilled with" the film saying "I hoped it would turn out to be a better film. I like it in some ways... I'm not happy with the editing and some of the music. You know, it was a film I very much wanted to produce myself, but Eliot Kastner got his hands on the property and produced it. I'm not crazy about Kastner. You see, after he gets a project off the ground, he usually doesn't give a rat's ass about it".

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