Overboard (1987 film)
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Overboard | |
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Directed by | Garry Marshall |
Produced by | Anthea Sylbert Alexandra Rose |
Written by | Leslie Dixon |
Starring | Goldie Hawn Kurt Russell Edward Herrmann Roddy McDowall Katherine Helmond |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date(s) | July 1987 |
Running time | 109 min. |
Language | English |
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Overboard is a movie starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell that was released in the summer of 1987. It was directed by Garry Marshall.
Goldie Hawn is Joanna Stayton, the pampered wife of a pretentious socialite Grant Stayton III (Edward Herrmann). When their boat gets stuck for repairs, Joanna employs carpenter Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell) to improve her closet space. But when Dean asks to be paid, he's blatantly turned down by the "nothing is ever good enough for me" Joanna. So when Joanna falls overboard and gets a bad case of amnesia, Dean takes advantage of the situation and, in a stroke of retributive genius, tells her that she's his wife and the mother of his four unruly children.
A Korean drama television series, 환상의 커플 (Fantasy Couple), based on this movie was broadcast in 2006.
This film is an adaptation of the 1974 classic Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August. Coincidentally the same film was the inspiration of the Madonna and Guy Ritchie 2002 critical and commercial bomb Swept Away.
[edit] Cast
- Kurt Russell — Dean Proffitt
- Goldie Hawn — Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt
- Edward Herrmann — Grant Stayton III
- Roddy McDowall — Andrew
- Katherine Helmond — Edith Mintz
- Michael G. Hagerty — Billy Pratt
- Jeffrey Wiseman — Joey Proffitt
- Jamie Wild — Greg Proffitt
- Jared Rushton — Charlie Proffitt
- Brian Price — Travis Proffitt
[edit] Plot
Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell) is a struggling carpenter in the tiny Oregon town of Elk Cove. After being hired by a very snotty and spoiled millionairess Joanna Stayton (Goldie Hawn) to remodel a closet on her yacht, the two get into an argument about what type of wood the closet should be built with; she is unhappy with his work and refuses to pay him. Dean refuses to leave and is knocked overboard by Joanna.
Later on that night, Joanna realizes she left her wedding ring on the yacht deck. She goes to find it and is tossed overboard from the pitching yacht, which continues on, without anyone hearing her cry for help.
She is later found on shore with amnesia, with no idea who she is. Dean hears of that on the news and uses that to his advantage. He arrives to make an identification and in front of the doctor, nurse, and warden, he renames her Annie and makes up phony stories about her past. To prove he is truly her husband, despite her assertions that he is not, he cites the strawberry-shaped birthmark on her buttocks, which he spied on the yacht when she was wearing a high-cut swimming suit.
They arrive at the house for the first time and Joanna, now known as Annie, is shocked at how rundown the house is. Dean uses her amnesia to his advantage, telling her that she is his wife, and mother of his four sons, Travis, fraternal twins Greg and Charlie, and Joey. At first Annie is not able to make the adjustment to living in a new environment, but eventually she adjusts, and begins both to love the boys and accept her [new] way of life.
Annie assists Dean with plans for a miniature golf course, which comes off as a rousing success; to celebrate, they go to the town nightclub, where Dean tells her a local legend about the lovers Katerina and Arturo and how they are the myth of the ocean waves. Dean and Annie spend that night together. The next day, Dean and the boys surprise Annie by buying a new washing machine.
After two months of living with Dean and the boys, Joanna's wayward husband comes to retrieve her. When she sees him she regains her memory, becomes angry at Dean for lying to her, and drives off in the limo, with the boys begging her to stay.
Back on the yacht, Joanna is greeted by her family. They are concerned because of the behaviors she has developed such as drinking beer and serving herself and others. She realizes she doesn't love Grant, but Dean, and wants to return to Elk Cove, where she knows she will be happy — so she turns the yacht around.
Meanwhile, Dean and the boys have persuaded a friend in the United States Coast Guard to take a boat out after Joanna. When it is instructed to divert for salmon poachers, both Joanna and Dean jump overboard from their respective crafts, shouting "Katerina!" and "Arturo!" They meet at sea, and are picked up by the Coast Guard vessel. Grant, incensed by Joanna leaving him, actually tries to shoot her with his skeet shooting rifle as she is swimming to Dean, but is unceremoniously booted overboard and into the water by his butler Andrew (Roddy McDowall), who then gives his two weeks notice. Dean cannot believe she gave up all her riches for him — but she informs him that she did not, it is all hers. Upon hearing this, he ponders what he can give her that she does not already have — to which she fondly replies, "A little girl."
[edit] External link
- Overboard at the Internet Movie Database