Overboard (film)

• Goldie Hawn: Joanna Stayton / Annie Proffitt
• Kurt Russell: Dean Proffitt
• Edward Herrmann: Grant Stayton III
• Katherine Helmond: Edith Mintz
• Michael G. Hagerty: Billy Pratt
• Roddy McDowall: Andrew
• Jamie Wild: Greg Proffitt
• Hector Elizondo: Skipper

Overboard - A goldfish falls into the water ( original title: Overboard ) is an American comedy film from the year 1987 was directed by Garry Marshall, and written by Leslie Dixon.. The main roles were played by Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.

Action

The bitchy multimillionaire Joanna Stayton is living a life devoid of meaning at the side of her unloving husband and is additionally monitored by their decadent snobbish mother. In order to overcome boredom and futility for a moment, they commissioned the carpenter Dean Proffitt to rebuild a closet in her luxury boat. Then, but she refuses to pay Dean, because he has used in her opinion the wrong wood.

Shortly afterwards, an accident occurs: Joanna falls overboard their yacht and loses her memory. Dean sees the television that Joanna's husband acts as if he knew this woman does not, and to get revenge on her, and because he needs a nanny and she wants to work off their debts, Dean reports, claiming to recognize them: they hot Annie and was his wife and the mother of his four sons. Joanna pulls then to Dean, leads his household and educates his sons. In this role she is - after a few teething problems - getting better and Dean falls in love with her. Also Joanna lives on in the family, in which it is needed and can move a lot of things. With their help it succeed Dean to get a well-paid job for a mini -golf course. She instills the teacher of the boys respect and school performance mend; the previously somewhat neglected house soon makes a very neat impression. Dean tried her several times to tell the truth, this does not succeed him; last time, Joanna does not believe him and the children refuse to admit that she is not her mother. Even his best friend tenaciously holds to the dizziness; he convinces Dean that he and Joanna belong together. Joanna's husband, meanwhile, cheerfully at sea with younger women.

After Joanna's mother threatens her husband to send him private mercenaries to the neck, if her daughter does not show up again, he seeks it on at Dean, her memory returns and she drives away with it. Your boat leaves the harbor, Joanna decides on board but, disgusted by the company of her mother and her husband to return to Dean and turns the boat. Although the husband the boat again applies and will bring them by force to his home, the crew Joanna supported projects. Dean asks a fellow officer of the Coast Guard to follow the boat. The Coast Guard boat is called just before reaching the luxury boat to use one. The desperate Dean jumps into the water, which Joanna somewhat later also does. Joannes husband tries to shoot at them, but is pushed by a servant into the sea at the last moment. Even in the sea Dean and Joanna kiss, and Dean is impressed with the fact that Joanna wants to give him to the life of luxury. Joanna replied that she had to give up anything, because all the assets not her husband, but hers. In the end, Dean asks if there was anything he could give her yet, they have not yet. Joanna replied that she wanted a little daughter.

Reviews

Roger Ebert described the comedy in the Chicago Sun-Times on 16 December 1987 as a warm and amusing. The relationship of Hawn and Russell in the movie he likened to the relationship of Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in Love movie African Queen. The development of the character played by Hawn he likened to the development of her film character in the comedy Private Benjamin. Ebert also praised the illustrations by Edward Herrmann and Roddy McDowall and directed by Garry Marshall.

The lexicon of the International film described the film as stereotypical rich comedy, but gains in the second half of originality and warmth.

Rita Kempley wrote in the Washington Post on 16 December 1987 that they could not imagine that there is an even worse film in which it was about the issue of amnesia. She described the comedy as banal, their characters as one-dimensional.

Awards

Jamie Wild was nominated for his role in the film Young Artist Award in 1989. Another nomination for the Young Artist Award in the film as Best Comedy.

Others

• In the United States, the film grossed a 26,713,187 U.S. dollars. And after its theatrical release on 21 April 1988 saw him 347 862 spectators in theaters.
• Originally the film was longer and extended to a special relationship between the mother and the children. However, the studio did not like the loose balance between the characters, as they wanted to have a grown-up film, which is why they sent Marshall back to the editing room, where it subsequently reduced the film to 1 hour and 50 minutes.

• Under the name Overboard! (English Shipwreckers ), there is also a computer game by Psygnosis, which up to the name but has no connection to the film.