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Outrageous Fortune

1987

Arthur Hiller

Bette Midler, Shelley Long, Peter Coyote, Robert Prosky ...

4.8

255

Comedy 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?

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Leslie Dixon’s script is effective, though sometimes seems stranded between the domestic humour and the big issues being played out. Still, engaging, undemanding stuff. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Outrageous Fortune is well crafted, old-fashioned entertainment that takes some conventional elements, shines them up and repackages them as something new and contemporary."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"This is a movie that has its commercial concept written all over it; it's so painstakingly crafted as a product that the messy spontaneity of life is rarely allowed to interrupt. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"Long and Midler are so good they almost make us forget that Outrageous Fortune is yet another elaborate chase movie with the usual comic CIA and KGB stooges"	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"With Arthur hiller in charge, much of the dialogue turns into squawking, and the movie is flattened out and rackety, with Midler doing her damnedest to pump sass and energy into it."	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"It works because Miss Midler and Miss Long are hilarious, both separately and together. Another thing that works is Leslie Dixon's screenplay, which has energy, wit and a supreme confidence"	POS
Canada	Rick Groen The Globe and Mail	"Outrageous Fortune is a genuine waste of talent (Midler, Long and Coyote all have it) and time (the standard 90 minutes' worth)"	NEG

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