Overboard

Overboard (1987)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (24 reviews)

  • 70% of users liked it
    (66,383 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.

  • James Plath, Movie Metropolis

    Solid, fun entertainment that continued to show an appreciative public that Hawn was more than a ditzy blonde.

  • 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]

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • moon r


    One of the most tried and true of the screwball comedy formulas: uptown girl, downtown guy, together temporarily and hating it. 90 minutes later its wedding bells. Roll credits. Entirely dependent on the charisma of the leads. Russell and Hawn supply the goods in what only can be… More

  • Jennifer X


    I did not buy the romance, and the plot points were so farcical this film was almost unwatchable. Is this seriously your favorite film,. Reese Witherspoon?

  • 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)

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