Fresh
Midler and Long are never less than fun to watch.
Variety Staff, Variety
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?
1987 · 1h 40m · R
Comedy
Directed by
Arthur Hiller
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Arthur Hiller Director
- Shelley Long as Lauren Ames
- Bette Midler as Sandy Brozinsky
- Peter Coyote as Michael Sanders
- Robert Prosky as Stanislav Korzenowski
- John Schuck as Agent Atkins
- Anthony Heald as Weldon
- George Carlin as Frank Madras
- Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Cab Driver
- Florence Stanley as Ticket Agent
- Jerry Zaks as Tobacco Clerk
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
58%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Every bit as rude and wonderful as Ruthless People...
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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
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
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
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