Housesitter (film)
- Steve Martin: Newton Davis
- Goldie Hawn Gwen Phillips
- Dana Delany: Becky Metcalf
- Julie Harris: Edna Davis
- Donald Moffat: George Davis
- Peter MacNicol: Marty
House Sitter - Lies have nice legs is a comedy film from 1992 directed by Frank Oz.
Action
Newton Davis is an architect. After he built his dream home for himself and his girlfriend Becky, he is more disappointed when she rejects his marriage proposal. It comes to the separation.
When Newton goes to eat one evening at a Hungarian restaurant, met him there, the waitress Gwen. Since Newton believes they do not understand the English language, he tells her the story of his dream home and records her a sketch of the house on a napkin. When Newton wants to go home, he meets Gwen on the road. It turns out that she is no Hungarian and understood everything he told her. Both talk and then go in Gwen's apartment, where Newton eventually spends the night.
The next morning, Newton leaves the apartment. When Gwen wakes up and notices that her nocturnal visitor has disappeared, she finds the napkin with the drawing of the house and decides to go there to get it to look around. She is enthusiastic about Newton's dream house and pulls there without Newton's knowledge a. When she settled in the town purchases, she poses as Newton's wife. This lie allows her to leave to write to all purchases. On the way back to the house she meets Newton's parents, who are surprised when they hear that their son was married.
When Newton goes to his house to make there a few days off, he discovers that Gwen is drawn there. All attempts to get rid of them fail, because Gwen manages with her skillful frauds to convince everyone that she and Newton are married. Newton, meanwhile, tries to recapture his ex-girlfriend Becky. But she believes Gwen and rejects him.
Gwen even manages that Newton gets a raise from his boss. At a ceremony they want the boss to introduce their parents, because Gwen has made him believe that he had served with her father in the war. At this point, threatens to collapse Gwen's web of lies, but as always they find a solution: you get paid two homeless people who pretend to be their parents. Newton's boss, his family and friends are excited about Gwen and her parents.
At the end of Newton recognizes that he is in love with Gwen and decides to live with her in the house.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on 12 June 1992, the film was not a masterpiece of comedy, he would, however sweet and funny ( sweet and funny). Ebert praised in this context, the representations of Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin.