Engaging, undemanding stuff.
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06/23/08
Outrageous Fortune (1987)
50 %
Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 10 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
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 world-renowned Russian. They discover, to their outrage, that they are sleeping with the same man and, because... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Bette Midler, Shelley Long, George Carlin, Peter Coyote
Director: Arthur Hiller
Reviews
1 - 20 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
As a vehicle for their considerable comic talents, the enterprise is wheelclamped by typecasting.
01/26/06
Top Critic
The plot here has been played out hundreds of times (and often better) in other films.
06/23/08
Top Critic Top Critic
A female buddy-buddy movie which grows more and more tiresome as it unspools
08/25/04
I shudder to think that a Shelley Long-Bette Midler pairing could have been considered a sure thing by anyone, at any time.
11/01/02
There's more regressive coyness in this buddy adventure-comedy than anyone should have to sit through in a lifetime...
01/01/00
Such rarefied screen writing calls for the peerless talents of Arthur Hiller, a director with the comic timing of a tax auditor.
01/01/00
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.
01/01/00
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