Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.
If there's an amnesia movie worse than Overboard, it slips my mind.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A warm and funny movie.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
While the prospect of watching Miss Hawn play a rude, nasty socialite is appealing, and even the transformation to homebody is a funny idea, Overboard winds up taking things too far.