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Housesitter

1992

Frank Oz

Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris ...

4.7

4,651

Comedy Martin plays an architect who builds his dream house for his high school sweetheart (Dana Delany), then surprises her with a marriage proposal--both of which she rejects. Distraught, he goes back to New York and pours out his heart to a woman he meets in a bar and beds (Hawn), not realizing she is a flaky con artist. She knows a good thing when she hears it and heads for his hometown, moves into the empty dream house, and begins passing ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Martin is very good here (...) But Hawn's performance is the keystone of the movie (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Nothing is particularly wrong with what the film offers, there’s just not enough of it to make the offer worth accepting."
		Angie Errigo Empire	"All along, of course, we are supposed to realise they're made for each other, except that that's a little hard to swallow when there's so little chemistry between them (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Individual lines are often funny, and small bits of business evoke smiles (...) Yet too much of the film seems unfinished."
		Joseph McBride Variety	"A tediously unfunny screwball comedy, is a career misstep for both Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn"

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