Outrageous Fortune
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?”
The CIA is trailing them, the KGB is tracking them, the phone company...
Comedy
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1987
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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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Rated:
R
Runtime:
100 min
Release date:
30 Jan 1987
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Midler and Long are never less than fun to watch.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
23 Jun 2008
fresh:
Every bit as rude and wonderful as Ruthless People...
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
There's more regressive coyness in this buddy adventure-comedy than anyone should have to sit through in a lifetime...
– Pat Graham,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Such rarefied screen writing calls for the peerless talents of Arthur Hiller, a director with the comic timing of a tax auditor.
– Paul Attanasio,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Unfortunately, the movie is so busy cross-polinating its genres that it never pauses for the kind of thought that might have made it really special, instead of just fitfully funny.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000