Outrageous Fortune

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Outrageous Fortune

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Produced by Ted Field
Written by Leslie Dixon
Starring Shelley Long
Bette Midler
Peter Coyote
Robert Prosky
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography David M. Walsh
Editing by Tom Rolf
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s) January 30, 1987
Running time 100 min.
Country Flag of the United States
Language English
Budget $5 million
Gross revenue $52,864,741
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Outrageous Fortune is a 1987 movie written by Leslie Dixon, directed by Arthur Hiller, and stars Shelley Long and Bette Midler.

Midler received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role).

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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 choose between them. The man works for the KGB, and has stolen a toxin that could destroy huge areas of nature with even a few drops. The women chase the man across America, coming across the CIA and other men cheated by the double agent. Finally, when a trade with the CIA for the toxin goes awry, and Lauren gets away with both the money and the toxin, the agent is killed and the money is lost to native Indians. The women form a lasting friendship, and go on to perform Hamlet together

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[edit] Trivia

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  • The term "Outrageous Fortune" comes from the famous soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet:
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"
  • Both Shelley Long and Bette Midler were promised top billing when they signed to do the film. Neither one wanted to give up top billing to the other. So west of the Mississippi River, Long got top billing and Midler got top billing east of the Mississippi.
  • Bette Midler was three months pregnant when filming began and six months pregnant when it wrapped.

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Films directed by Arthur Hiller

The Careless Years (1957) • This Rugged Land (1962) • Miracle of the White Stallions (1963) • The Wheeler Dealers (1963) • The Americanization of Emily (1964) • Promise Her Anything (1965) • Penelope (1966) • Tobruk (1967) • The Tiger Makes Out (1967) • Popi (1969) • The Out-of-Towners (1970) • Love Story (1970) • The Hospital (1971) • Plaza Suite (1971) • Man of La Mancha (1972) • The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974) • The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) • Silver Streak (1976) • W.C. Fields and Me (1976) • The In-Laws (1979) • Nightwing (1979) • Making Love (1982) • Author! Author! (1982) • Romantic Comedy (1983) • The Lonely Guy (1984) • Teachers (1984) • Outrageous Fortune (1987) • See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) • Taking Care of Business (1990) • The Babe (1992) • Married to It (1993) • Carpool (1996) • An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997) • The Trouble With Frank (2005)