Overboard Page #2

Synopsis: Rich bitch Joanna hires country carpenter Dean to build a closet on her yacht. When the two don't see eye-to-eye, Dean is left unpaid while Joanna sets sail. The following day, Joanna is fished out of the sea, after falling overboard, suffering from amnesia. Dean sees a neat way to regain the money she owes him... he tells her she's his wife; that way Dean gets a free housekeeper and mother for his four kids.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Garry Marshall
Production: MGM
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
PG
Year:
1987
106 min
2,457 Views


No problem! Pay me the 600 bucks

you owe me and I'm gone!

Captain Karl! Start up the engine!

You know what your problem is? Huh?

You're so goddamn bored,

you gotta invent things to b*tch about.

You haven't got a single thing to do

except for your hair.

Yeah! The closet was fine!

You just needed somethin'

to take up your useless, empty,

nail-polishing, toe-polishing,

rich-b*tch, sun tanning days!

- Don't touch me!

- What?

Hey, lady.

I may be hard up, but I am not that

hard up. And I'm not goin' anywhere...

Hey!

- Damn you!

- Man overboard!

I'll get you for this, you...

Not my tool belt! You owe me 600 bucks!

- Keep going!

- As you wish.

If I ever get you, lady, you're dead meat!

You got that?

No, don't throw that!

I'm not bored! I'm quite happy!

Everyone wants to be me!

You come back here!

I lost all my tools.

I'll loan you some tools.

We'll get you some part-time work.

I need a steady job.

What about that night-time thing?

I'm working on it. Listen, pretty soon,

we'll get that miniature golf course deal.

If I can hang on that long.

He called you a what?

Joanna, why are you so upset?

Why in the world do you care what some

carpenter from Elk Snout thinks of you?

I'm sure I'm just premenstrual.

Then you must go right back to bed

for at least two days.

Inga, you don't shove the food

down Shiitake's throat.

You place it on her tongue.

Don't they have dogs in Sweden?

Grant mentioned having a baby again.

What should I do?

Darling, if you have a baby,

you won't be the baby any more.

True.

Well, I must go. Bye-bye, Mommy.

Bye-bye, sweetie.

I'm not a b*tch.

Andrew!

Are you going to bring me my lemon

or do I have to squeeze it from my hat?

Hey, guys, I'm home!

Stay away, you wolves! No! Shoo!

Bad dogs! Go away!

Buster! Jackson! Get back inside!

- Are you Mr Proffitt?

- Yeah!

You look like the morning after

Halloween. Probably had a day like I did.

- What happened to you?

- Monday is their first day of school

and I came here to welcome your family.

And what do I get in return?

- I get toilet-papered by your children!

- They're just playin' around!

Just playin' around? They were about

to douse the toilet paper with gasoline

- and strike...

- Wait, wait! Stop.

- Greg and Charlie. Twins, right?

- Yeah.

They're having this arson period. They

don't know this, but I'm ahead of them.

I got two fire extinguishers ready to go.

- I didn't catch your name.

- Adele Burbridge.

- Nice to meet you.

- Principal of the Elk Cove school.

- Your children are monsters!

- You won't think that once you know 'em!

- Where is Mrs Proffitt during all of this?

- She died three years ago.

Mr Proffitt, your children are totally

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Leslie Dixon

Leslie Dixon is an American screenwriter and film producer. She began her career as an original screenwriter, writing films such as 1987's Outrageous Fortune and Overboard. She then moved into adaptations and re-writes, developing the screenplays for: Mrs. Doubtfire, The Thomas Crown Affair, Pay It Forward, and Hairspray. She has also produced a variety of films, and the television series Limitless. more…

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