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- 1987
- R
- Buena Vista Distribution Company
- 1 h 39 m
- 1987
- R
- Buena Vista Distribution Company
- 1 h 39 m
Summary Two women unknowingly share the same man, but when he disappears, both go out looking for him and enter his surprisingly dangerous life.
Directed By: Arthur Hiller
Written By: Leslie Dixon
- 1987
- R
- Buena Vista Distribution Company
- 1 h 39 m
- 1987
- R
- Buena Vista Distribution Company
- 1 h 39 m
Outrageous Fortune
55
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Summary Two women unknowingly share the same man, but when he disappears, both go out looking for him and enter his surprisingly dangerous life.
Directed By: Arthur Hiller
Written By: Leslie Dixon
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
55
50% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
39% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
55
50% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
39% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Leslie Dixon’s script is effective, though sometimes seems stranded between the domestic humour and the big issues being played out. Still, engaging, undemanding stuff.
The plot is madcap nonsense, and the comic aim is sometimes very broad and very low, but the belly-laugh quotient in Arthur (The In-Laws) Hiller's movie is the highest since the last Midler movie, Ruthless People. [26 Jan 1987, p.76]
Outrageous Fortune is well crafted, old-fashioned entertainment that takes some conventional elements, shines them up and repackages them as something new and contemporary.
The two women seem genuinely comfortable with each other, and it shows in their unselfishness and timing in a film that moves from verbal humor to slapstick. [30 Jan 1987, p.4D]
It's a dim, thoroughly synthetic film, so far removed from its source--much less from any original creative impulse--that it barely seems to exist. [30 Jan 1987, p.A]
This is a movie that has its commercial concept written all over it; it's so painstakingly crafted as a product that the messy spontaneity of life is rarely allowed to interrupt.
Outrageous Fortune is a genuine waste of talent (Midler, Long and Coyote all have it) and time (the standard 90 minutes' worth). [30 Jan 1987]
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Production Company
Touchstone Pictures,
Silver Screen Partners II,
Interscope Communications
Release Date Jan 30, 1987
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The CIA is trailing them. The KGB is tracking them. The phone company is tracing them. The police are chasing them. The cowboys are herding them. And the Indians are hunting them. Are they going to fall for all of that?
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
BMI Film & TV Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
American Comedy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
