Overboard

Comedy about a rich bitch (Goldie Hawn) who suffers a bout of amnesia. She is picked up by a rough but charming hillbilly (Kurt Russell) – who claims her as his wife!, This screwball comedy casts real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in a film that finds the latter returning to her roots in a role reminiscent of Private Benjamin (1980). Hawn stars as Joanna Stayton, a snooty heiress who summons carpenter Dean Proffitt (Russell) to her lavish yacht, where she wants an expanded closet constructed that will house her valuable wardrobe. When Dean fails to build the closet out of cedar, Joanna haughtily dismisses him without payment. Later, Joanna falls overboard and is struck by another boat, causing amnesia. Seeing her story on the news, Dean constructs an elaborate scheme to pretend that Joanna is his wife, Annie. Soon, the former rich snob is cleaning Dean’s home and babysitting his four rambunctious boys. Although at first she’s a disaster, “Annie” grows into her role and begins to love being a mom and middle-class wife. When her real husband, Grant (Edward Herrmann), comes looking for her, however, her memory is jogged, and she must decide between a life of privileged ease and a life of happy housework. Overboard was the feature-film debut of writer Leslie Dixon, the granddaughter of famed photographer Dorothea Lange., Romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled woman who finds herself in deep water when she meets down-to-earth carpenter Dean Proffitt. When she accidentally falls from her yacht and loses her memory, Dean claims she is his wife in order to teach her a lesson. Suddenly she is struggling to make ends meet with four wild sons, a rundown home and a dog to tax her., A wealthy, obnoxious woman hires a carpenter to do some work on her yacht. When the two don’t see eye-to-eye, the carpenter is left unpaid, while the woman, Joanna, sets sail. The following day, after falling overboard, Joanna’s fished out of the sea. When she is diagnosed with amnesia, the carpenter sees a great way to regain the money she owes him… he tells Joanna she’s his wife; that way he gets a free housekeeper., A spoiled rich woman stiffs a carpenter, who is the first one to find her when she has amnesia; he gets revenge by conning her into thinking she’s his wife and the mother of his four kids., In this tragedy, a rich attorney and his wife embark upon a peaceful world cruise aboard a luxury yacht. Trouble ensues when she is accidently swept overboard during a storm., Romantic comedy about a rich, spoilt woman whose life of luxury comes to an abrupt halt when an out-of-pocket carpenter decides to teach her a lesson. When she accidentally falls from her yacht and loses her memory, the carpenter convinces her that she is his wife – and the mother of his four tearaway sons., Romantic comedy about a rich, spoilt woman whose life of luxury comes to an abrupt halt when an out-of-pocket carpenter decides to teach her a lesson. After she accidentally falls from her yacht and loses her memory, the carpenter convinces her that she is his wife – and the mother of his four tearaway sons.