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    Overboard (1987)

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    The golden age of the screwball comedy might have been the 1930s, but for one all-too-brief moment in late 1987, it was glimpsed once more.

    Post-Private Benjamin, pre-Pretty Woman, Goldie Hawn and director Garry Marshall teamed up to make Overboard, a Preston Sturges-style clash-of-the-classes romp set off the coast of Oregon.

    With Hawn’s real-life beau, Kurt Russell, as the blue-collar foil to her rich-bitch heiress, the film had that rarest of things – a real-life couple with as much chemistry onscreen as off.

    Bored yacht-dwelling socialite Joanna Stayton (Hawn) throws local carpenter Dean Profitt’s (Russell) toolbelt overboard when he fails to construct her fancy cabinets from cedar.

    He swears revenge, and when Joanna falls overboard herself in search of mislaid jewellery, hits her head and ends up with amnesia, he gets his chance.

    Dean sees Joanna on the TV news and, with her husband (Edward Herrmann) denying he knows her, claims the heiress as his wife, setting her to work raising his four unruly children and running his ramshackle home.

    Will this Park Avenue princess finally find her milieu, as a loving wife and mother? and can Dean prevent himself from falling overboard in love with her?

    Joanna Stayton/Annie
    Goldie Hawn
    Dean Proffitt
    Kurt Russell
    Grant Stayton III
    Edward Herrmann
    Edith Mintz
    Katherine Helmond
    Billy Pratt
    Mike Hagerty
    Andrew
    Roddy McDowall
    Charlie
    Jared Rushton
    Joey
    Jeffrey Wiseman
    Travis
    Brian Price
    Greg
    Jamie Wild
    Captain Karl
    Frank Campanella
    Dr Norman Korman
    Harvey Miller
    Wilbur Budd
    Frank Buxton
    Rose Budd
    Carol Williard
    Adele Burbridge
    Doris Hess
    Thud Gittman
    Ed Cree
    Gertie
    Mona Lyden
    Sheriff Earl
    Bing Russell

    Director
    Garry Marshall

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