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Synopsis: Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find their lives in danger.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Arthur Hiller
Production: Touchstone Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
1987
99 min
594 Views


Why do you ask?

Oh, well, there's just so many

actors who come in here. Please go on.

Well, we're putting

on a little pageant...

and there's a kid in my

class who's very insecure.

You know, the other kids pick on

him and his mother doesn't sew...

and I think it would

give him such a boost...

to have the best darn

costume in the place.

So I thought a professional costumers

would have an incredible pumpkin.

But I can't go more than $50...

because this is coming

out of my own pocket.

I'm really sorry. I don't

think we have a pumpkin.

What about a squash?

We don't have any vegetables as such.

I'm sorry.

Well, this is the

last place on the list.

But I'll just throw something

together myself, huh?

I really appreciate your time. Thanks.

Um, uh, listen. I don't know,

maybe, uh, maybe someone...

Maybe I could, uh... I've

made a lot of my own costumes.

I'm sure it wouldn't be that

difficult. If I could help out, I'd...

like to.

That would be fabulous.

- I hope you'll forgive me, Lauren.

- For what?

L... I don't usually

lunge at women like that.

- Oh.

- But you just, uh...

I just had to kiss you.

L-I really am sorry and I hope

that you'll want to see me again.

Oh, where in the world

did you come from?

- New Mexico, originally.

- No, no, I mean...

how can a man so delightful as you...

be just wandering the

streets of New York?

Single, single, yeah.

I can't believe it.

Well, that's not by choice.

I'd like to be married.

- This isn't happening.

- Why not?

Well, there must be something wrong

with you. Don't you have any faults?

I smoke.

You smoke? That's it? Call the police!

No, no, no. It's an addiction.

Colton's tobacco. New Mexico's finest.

I hope you don't mind.

Well, I'll struggle through somehow.

Good. Very good.

Because, uh, I'd like

to see you again...

tomorrow night.

Well, yes.

Mmm, thank you.

What's this?

"Ooh, eee, ooh, ah, ooh, eee, ah, ooh."

- That's what you do in acting class?

- Those are vowel groups.

Mmm, sorry. "Wowel" groups.

- Ooh. -

Ooh. - Ooh.

- Ooh, I feel the same way.

- Ooh, ooh.

Will you please kiss

me hard on the lips?

That was tender, but tasty.

- Bite my face.

- Okay.

Bite my leg. Now bite my other leg.

- You get her two 1 X legs and...

- Going over the fence gymnastics?

Oh, oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, my. That kind of evening, huh?

Not the kind you're used

to. No money changed hands.

No, no, no, no. Reveal, reveal.

You have killed your father.

You have married your mother.

Na, no words, remember.

Na, reveal.

Here we have a sick sea lion. Go.

- Miss Brozinsky.

- Okay.

You will now perform for

us, also without words...

Hamlet's soliloquy.

Who's that?

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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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