Outrageous Fortune

"The CIA is trailing them, the KGB is tracking them, the phone company is tracing them, the police are chasing them, the cowboys are herding them, and the Indians are hunting them. Are they going to fall for all of that?"

Jan 30 1987 R 1h 39m
Comedy

Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.

Plot

Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find their lives in danger.

Written by

Leslie Dixon

Directed by

Arthur Hiller

Cast

Shelley Long, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Interscope Communications, Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners II

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins & 1 nomination total

Scores
# of Votes
8,900
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
55
Popularity
NA