Overboard

Overboard (1987)

  • 48% of critics liked it
    (23 reviews)

  • 70% of users liked it
    (65,767 ratings)

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… More

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PG, 1 hr. 52 min.
Directed By
Garry Marshall
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 18, 1987 Wide
On DVD
Sep 19, 2000
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    While the prospect of watching Miss Hawn play a rude, nasty socialite is appealing, and even the transformation to homebody is a funny idea, Overboard winds up taking things too far.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    A warm and funny movie.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    If there's an amnesia movie worse than Overboard, it slips my mind.

  • Peter Canavese, Groucho Reviews

    Marshall's sunny, sitcomedic comedies tend to be kinda bad but also compulsively watchable, and this one's no exception... [Blu-ray]

  • Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

    Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn are truly the only reasons to keep watching this otherwise flaccid comedy, which feels static when it should zing and oppressive when it should soar.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bethany M


    Goldie Hawn is hilarious! A classic!

  • Jameson W


    Goldie Hawn is great!

  • Anthony L


    A typical 80's silly romantic comedy and the most guilty of pleasures. 'What could I give the woman who has everything?' 'A little Girl' Melts my heart every time ;o)

  • jay n


    goldie hawn is a peerless comedienne

  • Candy R


    Rom com about a rich woman who loses her memory when she falls overboard and a handyman claims her in to look after his four children.

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