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Outrageous Fortune (1987)

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Reviews Counted:5

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Rotten:3

Average Rating:5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Two would-be actresses, one serious about her craft but unable to get a job, the other brash and perfectly willing to act in porno films to make the rent, join an acting class given by a... Two would-be actresses, one serious about her craft but unable to get a job, the other brash and perfectly willing to act in porno films to make the rent, join an acting class given by a world-renowned Russian. They discover, to their outrage, that they are sleeping with the same man and, because of his him, become embroiled in an international spy caper. [More]

Starring: Bette Midler, Shelley Long, George Carlin, Peter Coyote

Starring: Bette Midler, Shelley Long, George Carlin, Peter Coyote

Director: Arthur Hiller

Director: Arthur Hiller

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Mar 14, 2000

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  • Outrageous Fortune
  • Lauren (Shelley Long, THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE) is refinement, regimentation, and ballet slippers. Sandy (Bette Midler, THE FIRST WIVES CLUB) is brassy, bossy, and stiletto heels. They meet and it's hate at first sight. But these two opposites are shocked to discover a common bond: They share the same boyfriend -- a handsome schoolteacher (Peter Coyote, RANDOM HEARTS) who mysteriously and conveniently disappears. Mr. Right wronged them ... and when they decide to track the scoundrel down, they're thrown together in a cross-country pursuit for better or worse ... mosty for worse! Brilliantly cast and deviously written, this racy, riotous comedy provides sidesplitting laughs of outrageous proportions!
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    Midler and Long are never less than fun to watch.

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    There's more regressive coyness in this buddy adventure-comedy than anyone should have to sit through in a lifetime...

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    Such rarefied screen writing calls for the peerless talents of Arthur Hiller, a director with the comic timing of a tax auditor.

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    Every bit as rude and wonderful as Ruthless People...

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    Unfortunately, the movie is so busy cross-polinating its genres that it never pauses for the kind of thought that might have made it really special, instead of just fitfully funny.

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