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Outrageous Fortune

4.8

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Original title

Outrageous Fortune

Year

1987

Running time

100 min.

Country

United States

United States

Director

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Producer

Touchstone Pictures, Interscope Communications, Silver Screen Partners II

Genre

Comedy

Synopsis

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?

Awards: 1987: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical (Midler)

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Critics' reviews

"Outrageous Fortune is well crafted, old-fashioned entertainment that takes some conventional elements, shines them up and repackages them as something new and contemporary."

Variety Staff: Variety
"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. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Long and Midler are so good they almost make us forget that Outrageous Fortune is yet another elaborate chase movie with the usual comic CIA and KGB stooges"

Kevin Thomas: Los Angeles Times
"With Arthur hiller in charge, much of the dialogue turns into squawking, and the movie is flattened out and rackety, with Midler doing her damnedest to pump sass and energy into it."

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
"It works because Miss Midler and Miss Long are hilarious, both separately and together. Another thing that works is Leslie Dixon's screenplay, which has energy, wit and a supreme confidence"

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"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. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

William Thomas: Empire
"Outrageous Fortune is a genuine waste of talent (Midler, Long and Coyote all have it) and time (the standard 90 minutes' worth)"

Rick Groen: The Globe and Mail

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Outrageous Fortune

1987

Arthur Hiller

4.8

(255)

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