Outrageous Fortune
Short description
Two aspiring actresses with opposing temperaments, Lauren Ames and Sandy Brozinsky, enrol at a acting school run by the Russian professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Lauren is polished and refined; Sandy is loud and brash. The two take an immediate dislike to each other, made worse when they discover they have both been dating the same man, Michael Sanders. When he vanishes under suspicious circumstances, the women are forced into an uneasy partnership, pursuing him across the country while government agents take an interest in the case.
Outrageous Fortune is a 1987 American comedy directed by Arthur Hiller, the thirteenth of the seventeen films he directed and the one between Teachers and See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Leslie Dixon wrote the screenplay, and Ted Field and Robert W. Cort produced for Touchstone Pictures. Bette Midler and Shelley Long lead the cast as Sandy and Lauren, with Peter Coyote as Michael, Robert Prosky as Korzenowski and John Schuck and Anthony Heald in supporting roles.
The film runs 100 minutes and has a mixed reception among viewers, with a rating of 6 out of 10 on TMDB. A critics' rating of 5.3 out of 10 from 25 reviews places it below the audience score.
What's left behind the scenes
- Bette Midler was four months pregnant when filming began.
- Shelly Long and Bette Midler were both promised top billing on the promotional posters, and neither was willing to concede. Therefore, a compromise was reached: west of the Mississippi, Long's name appeared first on the posters, and east of the Mississippi, Midler's name did.
- The moment where Bette Midler's character falls in front of the approaching truck was not in the script. The actress came up with the fall herself, feeling it would be effective. Shelly Long and the film crew were genuinely frightened and rushed to help Midler. This scene made it into the film.
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