Synopsis
Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.
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Cast
- Shirley MacLaineGrace Winterbourne
- Ricki LakeConnie Doyle
- Brendan FraserBill/Hugh Winterbourne
- Miguel SandovalPaco
- Loren DeanSteve DeCunzo
- Peter GeretyFather Brian
- Jane KrakowskiChristine
- Debra MonkLieutenant Ambrose
- Cathryn de PrumeRenee
- Kate HennigSophie
Recommendations
- 63
Chicago Sun-Times
Because it is light and stylish and good-hearted, it is quite possible to enjoy, in the right frame of mind. This is more of a movie to see on video, on an empty night when you need something to hurl at the gloom. - 50
ReelViews
This film mistakes action for energy, ridiculous circumstances for comedy, and a mismatched male/female pairing for romance. - 50
USA Today
Happily, MacLaine (who can pull off these lovable eccentric dowagers while she's sleeping) and Fraser, showcasing a previously untapped flair for romantic comedy, keep Lake on her toes. [19 Apr 1996, p.1D] - 40
The New York Times
But the film, written by Phoef Sutton and Lisa-Maria Radano and directed by Richard Benjamin in a style cute enough to peel paint off the walls, can't do much to generate romantic sparks between its two young leads. - 40
Washington Post
In this case of mistaken identity, Ricki Lake's career takes a dubious step from trashy TV talk show to B movie. - 38
TV Guide Magazine
Somehow, Hollywood has managed to reinvent the hard-boiled source novel -- Cornel Woolrich's "I Married a Dead Man" -- as a soft-centered candy of a comedy, and the result is indigestible. - 30
Chicago Reader
Translating Woolrich's pulpy obsessiveness and crazy contrivances into the stuff of light comedy is no easy matter, and the movie gets as far as it does mainly with the help of Lake and Shirley MacLaine. - 20
Austin Chronicle
The improbabilities pile up on top of each other in Mrs. Winterbourne, an anxious-to-please romantic comedy about mistaken identity that sounds vaguely familiar.
