Synopsis
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.
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Cast
- Shelley LongLauren Ames
- Bette MidlerSandy Brozinsky
- Peter CoyoteMichael Sanders
- Robert ProskyStanislav Korzenowski
- John SchuckAgent Atkins
- Anthony HealdWeldon
- George CarlinFrank Madras
- Ji-Tu CumbukaCab Driver
- Florence StanleyTicket Agent
- Jerry ZaksTobacco Clerk
Recommandations
- 80
Empire
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. - 75
Washington Post
Veteran Arthur Hiller, who directed Peter Falk and Alan Arkin in The In-Laws and Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in Silver Streak, proves equally adept at managing a female odd couple. - 70
Variety
Outrageous Fortune is well crafted, old-fashioned entertainment that takes some conventional elements, shines them up and repackages them as something new and contemporary. - 67
Christian Science Monitor
The one full-fledged inspiration of Outrageous Fortune is the pairing of Long and Midler into a team that adds up to even more than the sum of its parts. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 50
Time Out
As a vehicle for their considerable comic talents, the enterprise is wheelclamped by type casting. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Outrageous Fortune is an effort on the part of Disney to prove it can distribute adult films, but it only shows that it has no real perception of what such pictures are all about. - 50
Chicago Tribune
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]
