Outrageous Fortune (1987)

Outrageous Fortune (1987)

 

3/10

Starring          

Shelley Long

Bette Midler

 

Directed by Arthur Hiller

 

You do not get that much free time to do a lot of things in life. When you do get that free time, you can decide to take a walk with your dog, go for a picnic, have a nap or do what I did, watch a movie.

It would have been best I donated my free time to my office and work for free. When you decide to watch a movie, the biggest mistake you can make is to watch a movie that does not to be able to entertain, no matter how hard it tries.

Outrageous Fortune is a complete waste of time. How this movie made a lot of money in the box office and earn Midler a Golden Globe nomination goes above my head.

The whole movie context is lame and hard to relate to, because nothing that is happening or being shown to happen is in any way possible even in the context, they claim it can.

The leads are two women from opposite ends of the spectrum, who happen to be in a relationship with the same man, Michael. Michael uses them to be able to pass messages to his partner-in-crime, who happens to be the acting teacher of these two women. Michael is on the run from the CIA because he stole something, and he is using the women as mules to pass messages with his potential buyer.

Now the complexity of achieving getting these two women is not shown, nor do we see how he uses them to pass the messages, we are just told. From this point, the acting in this movie is so dreadful it is amazing and as the plot develops – we are exposed to so many plot holes. These two women must have some superpowers because they were able to track down a man, that the entire CIA could not.

I think what was worse still was seeing the CIA hoping these two women, will be able to assist them to track down the villain.

The two women in question are actresses who happen by some share luck to be in the same acting class and to have the same taste in men, are Lauren (Shelley Long) and Sandy (Bette Midler).

If like me, you happen to just come across this movie playing, and decided to sit through it, then I am sorry. If you have not, then please save yourself the pain, it is not worth the time.