Comedy · United States of America · 1987 · 1h 40m

Outrageous Fortune

Director

Cast

Shelley Long as Lauren Ames Bette Midler as Sandy Brozinsky Peter Coyote as Michael Sanders Robert Prosky as Stanislav Korzenowski John Schuck as Agent Atkins Anthony Heald as Weldon

Crew

David M. Walsh — Director of Photography Tom Rolf — Editor Alan Silvestri — Original Music Composer Leslie Dixon — Writer Robert W. Cort — Producer Ted Field — Producer

Tagline

The CIA is trailing them, the KGB is tracking them, the phone company is tracing them, the police are chasing them, the cowboys are herding them, and the Indians are hunting them. Are they going to fall for all of that?

Synopsis

Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.

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