Overboard (1987 film)

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Overboard
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Garry Marshall
Written by Leslie Dixon
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography John A. Alonzo
Edited by
Music by
Production
companies
Star Partners Ltd.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by MGM/UA Distribution Co.
Release date
  • December 18, 1987 (1987-12-18)
Running time
112 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$22 million [2]
Box office$26.7 million [1]

Overboard is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, written by Leslie Dixon, starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, [3] and produced by Roddy McDowall, who also co-stars alongside Edward Herrmann and Katherine Helmond. The film follows a demeaning, wealthy socialite who suffers from amnesia after falling from her yacht while vacationing on the Oregon Coast, only to be taken in by a working-class carpenter whom she had mistreated.

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The film's soundtrack was composed by Alan Silvestri while the Wright Brothers music used in the film was produced by Gary S. Paxton in Nashville, TN. Although it opened to mixed reviews, it was a box office success. Overboard is considered a classic by some, and has been remade several times. In 1992, it was adapted in the Indian film Ek Ladka Ek Ladki , in 2006, it was adapted into the South Korean television series Couple or Trouble , and in 2018 it was remade with Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez in reversed roles. The plot of the 1997 Malayalam film Mayaponman is loosely based on this film.

Plot

Joanna Mintz Stayton is a woman accustomed to a wealthy life, along with her husband Grant Stayton III. While waiting for her yacht to be repaired in the seaside town of Elk Cove, Oregon, Joanna hires carpenter Dean Proffitt, a widower with four sons, to remodel her closet. Dean produces quality work, which she dismisses because he used oak instead of cedar, despite her not having requested this at the start.

Dean agrees to redo the closet if he is paid for the work he has already done, to no avail. The two have an argument. Angry, Joanna eventually throws Dean and his tool kit into the water. Upon arriving home, he is greeted by his sons' principal, who threatens to involve social services, as his sons are undisciplined and struggle in school. Dean, however, is more interested in having fun with his friends than being an attentive parent.

Later that night, as the yacht sails away, Joanna goes on deck to retrieve her wedding ring, but loses her balance and falls overboard. She is later fished out of the water by a garbage scow. Now suffering from amnesia, Joanna is taken to the hospital. Grant eventually learns what happened. Intending to have her fortune to himself, and having had enough of her cruelty, he starts having parties with younger women, lying that Joanna has decided to leave him.

Dean, on the other hand, seeks revenge by encouraging Joanna to work off her unpaid bill. He goes to the hospital and says that she is his wife and the mother of his sons. She reluctantly goes home with him.

Joanna initially has difficulty dealing with Dean's sons and the other chores, but soon adapts. As she masters her responsibilities, she learns about the boys' school and family issues, and that Dean is secretly working two jobs to make ends meet. She streamlines the money problems with more efficient budgeting and convinces Dean to be a more responsible father.

Joanna makes Dean's dream come true by helping him design a miniature golf course. He, however, does not mention her real identity, fearing that she will leave. Four months later, Joanna's mother Edith grows suspicious of her daughter's whereabouts and threatens to have Grant hunted down. He is forced to end the partying and return retrieve Joanna, whose memory is restored upon seeing him. Realizing that she was manipulated, a distraught Joanna returns with Grant to her yacht, which heads for New York.

En route, Joanna is appalled by how rudely Grant and Edith treat the boat staff. She apologizes to her butler Andrew and the crew for her spiteful treatment towards them, and soon realizes how happy she was with Dean and his sons, prompting her to turn the yacht back towards Elk Cove.

The next morning, Grant finds out that Joanna has changed course and becomes jealous over the fact that she actually loves Dean not him. He takes charge of the boat.

Dean and the boys arrive on a Coast Guard cutter to rescue Joanna, but are called away due to a sighting of salmon poachers. He runs to the back of the boat and calls out to Joanna. He then jumps into the water to swim to her, and she does the same. Grant furiously takes aim at Joanna with a bow and arrow, only to be booted overboard by Andrew.

Dean and Joanna are then brought on board the Coast Guard boat. Dean's sons start making out their Christmas lists. Dean asks Joanna what he could possibly give her that she does not already have. She answers, "A little girl", and they kiss.

Cast

Production

Principal photography of Overboard largely took place at Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles, as well as Fort Bragg and Mendocino, California, [4] with additional photography in Newport, Oregon. [5]

Release

Box office

The film made $1.9 million in its first weekend, $2.9 million in its second (+34%), and $3.9 million in its third (+54%), totaling $26.7 million by the end of its run. [1]

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 46% based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell's comedic chops elevate waterlogged material, but not even their buoyant chemistry can keep Overboard's creepy concept afloat". [6] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [7] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A+" on an A+ to F scale.

Variety praised Hawn's performance, but called the film "an uninspiring, unsophisticated attempt at an updated screwball comedy that is brought down by plodding script and a handful of too broadly drawn characters." [8] Rita Kempley of The Washington Post called it "a deeply banal farce" with "one-dimensional characters, a good long look at her buttocks and lots of pathetic sex jokes." [9] Roger Ebert liked it; while calling it predictable, he wrote: "the things that make it special, however, are the genuine charm, wit and warm energy generated by the entire cast and director Garry Marshall." [10] The Los Angeles Times' review of it read: "The film tries to mix the two 1930s movie comedy strains: screwball romance and populist fable. But there's something nerveless and thin about it. Hawn and Russell are good, but their scenes together have a calculated spontaneity—overcute, obvious." [11]

The film is considered a classic by some. [12]

Home media

CBS/Fox Video released Overboard on VHS in North America in 1988. [13] In Canada, it was among the top 10 video rentals in the country in July of that year. [13] MGM Home Entertainment first released a DVD edition of the film in 1999. [14] A Blu-ray was released by MGM in 2009. [15]

In 2021, Severin Films reissued the film on DVD and Blu-ray from a new 2K master. [16]

Remakes

A reimagined film of the same name, starring Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez, was released on May 4, 2018. The main roles are reversed from the 1987 original. Derbez portrays a wealthy man who falls off of his yacht and is found by Faris' character, a single mother who convinces him that he is her husband. [17] [18]

It has been loosely adaptated in India into the 1992 Hindi film Ek Ladka Ek Ladki , directed by Vijay Sadanah and starring Salman Khan and Neelam Kothari and the 1997 Malayalam film Mayaponman .

The 2006 South Korean television show Couple or Trouble , starring Han Ye-seul and Oh Ji-ho and directed by Kim Sang Ho, is also a loose adaptation of the film.

The 2012 Swiss film Liebe und Andere Unfälle is another loose adaptation of the film. The 2013 Russian miniseries Wife Rented (Zhena naprokat, Жена напрокат) is also a loose adaptation of the film.

There's also an Egyptian uncredited remake titled Mecanica (ميكانيكا) starring Nelli and Youcef Mansour.

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