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Movie Info

Bombastic wannabe actress Sandy Borzinsky (Bette Midler) and persnickety Hollywood hopeful Lauren Ames (Shelley Long) land in the same popular acting class and immediately find they can't stand one another. Worse still, the natural adversaries realize they share the same boyfriend, Michael Sanders (Peter Coyote), who then dies suddenly in an explosion. Believing he's still alive, they set out to find him, only to discover they're being chased by spies, and that Michael is not who they thought.

Rating:

R
Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Arthur Hiller
Producer:

Robert W. Cort, Ted Field
Writer:

Leslie Dixon
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 22, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA):

$52.8M
Runtime:

1h 35m
Production Co:

Touchstone Pictures, Interscope Communications
Sound Mix:

Surround

Cast & Crew

Shelley Long
Lauren Ames

Bette Midler
Sandy Brozinsky

Peter Coyote
Michael Sanders

Robert Prosky
Stanislav Korzenowski

John Schuck
Atkins

George Carlin
Frank

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Critic Reviews for Outrageous Fortune

All Critics (22) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (11)

Engaging, undemanding stuff.

June 23, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Empire Magazine
Midler and Long are never less than fun to watch.

June 23, 2008 | Full Review…

Variety Staff
Variety
As a vehicle for their considerable comic talents, the enterprise is wheelclamped by typecasting.

January 26, 2006 | Full Review…

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

January 1, 2000 | Full Review…

Pat Graham
Chicago Reader
Every bit as rude and wonderful as Ruthless People...

January 1, 2000 | Full Review…

Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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.

January 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
...could (and should) have been so much better.

May 3, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
Lavishly funny and entertaining.

November 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Richard Freedman
Newhouse News Service
The plot here has been played out hundreds of times (and often better) in other films.

June 23, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

TV Guide
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June 14, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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September 10, 2004 | Rating: 3/5

Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
A female buddy-buddy movie which grows more and more tiresome as it unspools

August 25, 2004 | Rating: 1/5

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice

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Audience Reviews for Outrageous Fortune

Sep 06, 2010

Extremely funny! Middler and Long are a great duo in this movie, and I just loved the story, it's fantastic. I love this movie, and I highly recommend it.

Aj V Super Reviewer
Feb 01, 2010

A fairly good comedy has a few laughs.

Dean K Super Reviewer
Jan 07, 2010

Hadn't seen this since I was a kid, barely remembered it. Pretty funny, if unlikely movie. In the 80s, you really to suspend your disbelief in order to watch something like this. lol

Tim S Super Reviewer
Jul 29, 2007

Bette and Shelley fall for the same guy, who has been dating them both. Good cast.

Candy R Super Reviewer