There's a good chance you aren't aware of this terrible, terrible Disney comedy, starring Danny Glover and Joe Pesci - who should both have known a hell of a lot better - as it sits on 4% on Rotten Tomatoes and isn't really memorable for anything positive. Production was already problematic, with the original director being fired, but when it came to filming the climactic boat chase scene, in which Pesci and Glover's hapless fishing buddies teamed up with Willie Nelson to foil an English conman and murderer (which makes it sound a lot better than it actually is), disaster struck. The sequence included a boat jumping over a ramp to clear a row of mangrove bushes, but during filming the airbourne boat missed its target and landed instead on top of two other boats near a crowd of extras, killing stuntwoman Janet Wilder, and injured others including her husband and father-in-law. She was a member of one of the first families of Hollywood stuntmen and died because the stuntman driving the boat hit his ramp at the wrong angle and rolled the boat upside down, which left him dangling as it flew through the air. Extra Gary Beyrent said he and other extras had been concerned they were in a dangerous position for the shot, and that it could have ended with the death of Joe Pesci had the boat been slightly on another course: "I was standing there, like everyone else, saying I think we're a little too close for this. We didn't have any direction. They let us stand wherever we wanted. "If this guy doesn't hit this ramp right, where's this boat going to go? It can only go right or left of this ramp. If it went right, Joe Pesci wouldn't be here any more."
