Chris Elliot lends his flat and charmless presence to Adam Resnick's equally flat and charmless Cabin Boy. Elliot plays Nathaniel Mayweather, a simpering, upper-class snob who has just graduated from the Stephenson Finishing School. At the school he has completed all the course work to become an official "fancy lad." He heads after graduation to set sail and take over the charge of his father's hotel in Hawaii. But instead of getting on the luxury liner Queen Catherine, he boards a stinking fishing scow, "The Filthy Whore." The dirty and surly crew refuses to take Nathaniel to Hawaii, so Nathaniel takes matters into his own hands and tries to change the course of the ship. That he does, but instead of Hawaii, he sends the vessel into a bizarre section of the ocean called "Hell's Bucket" --a Ray Harryhausen nightmare spot with walking icebergs, talking cupcakes, laughing clouds, six-armed-women, and giant hardware-store managers. Through all this, Nathaniel develops a romance with a long-distance swimmer, Trina (Melora Walters), that the fishing tug has snagged. The beatific romance comes to a head one night as Nathaniel and Trina stare into the star-lit sky. Trina bares her soul to Nathaniel, after which, Nathaniel responds, "Sorry. I was just thinking how much fun it is to roast pumpkin seeds."
