SummaryA cruel and beautiful heiress mocks and cheats over a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia, he decides to introduce her to working-class life by convincing her they're husband and wife.
Directed By:Garry Marshall
Written By:Leslie Dixon
Overboard
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This hilarious and touching romantic comedy recalls the integrated plotting and sophisticated dialogue of '30s Hollywood. Russell is excellent as overgrown kid Dean; Hawn gives her best performance to date as the hapless heiress turned gutsy wife and mother (the kids aren't just cutely naughty, they're truly obnoxious); and Marshall's faultless timing makes the most of Leslie Dixon's neatly contrived situations and snappy dialogue.
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The things that make Overboard special, however, are the genuine charm, wit and warm energy generated by the entire cast and director Garry Marshall. Hawn and Russell work well together, never overplaying scenes that easily could have self-destructed.
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Apr 12, 2025
8
Um Salto para a Felicidade é um filme que sobrevive ao tempo graças ao seu charme, ao talento dos atores principais e ao roteiro que sabe exatamente o que quer ser. É despretensioso, doce, engraçado, e sim — muito bom. Goldie Hawn e Kurt Russell carregam essa história com tanto carisma que é impossível não torcer por **** fosse outro casal, talvez o filme não passasse de uma comédia esquecível. Mas com esses dois, vira uma daquelas joias nostálgicas que a gente reassiste com um sorriso no rosto. E ainda por cima, entrega uma das melhores cenas finais dos anos 80 — com nado sincronizado e tudo.Veredito final: vale cada minuto. Seja pra rir, se encantar ou só curtir um bom clichê feito com alma.Nota: 8.0/10: 80 - muito bom
Jan 31, 2018
7
Kurt Russell's mullet is once again awesome. A really funny movie and you can easily tell the great chemistry that Russell and Goldie Hawn have.
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Those opening minutes, in which Hawn plays a heavy, are some of her best work. The rest we've seen before, a lot. Overboard is overlong, and stale as can be. [18 Dec 1987, p.D6]
50
The film tries to mix the two 1930s movie comedy strains: screwball romance and populist fable. But there's something nerveless and thin about it. Hawn and Russell are good, but their scenes together have a calculated spontaneity--overcute, obvious. Director Garry Marshall keeps the lines slamming off each other briskly but with a shallow, hectoring energy. And he doesn't have much visual flair.
40
Overboard is predictable, yet charming. Russell exudes a natural earthiness that lends itself to this type of material. Hawn plays gamely along. While Overboard recalls director Marshall's (Nothing in Common) sitcom days, the movie is shot with the sort of graininess that can never be mistaken for television. It could look a lot better. [18 Dec 1987, p.7]
40
Overboard is an uninspiring, unsophisticated attempt at an updated screwball comedy that is brought down by plodding script and a handful of too broadly drawn characters. Only element that occasionally lifts pic is the work of the redoubtable Goldie Hawn, who gives a gem of a performance.
37
If there's an amnesia movie worse than Overboard, it slips my mind.
Oct 23, 2024
6
The chemistry between Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn ensures that Overboard isn't without it's charms even if it is all a little predictable.
Jul 7, 2020
5
Wonderful movie to watch on a rainy day curled up on the couch with a hot cup of coffee. The characters are hilarious! Goldie is fantastic as a b_ _ _ _ h. Curt is hilarious and very easy on the eyes. He is gorgeous. This movie is one of my family’s most beloved movies to quote from: “I’m happy. Everyone wants to be me”.
“I **** a bug”.
“If you have a baby, you won’t be the baby anymore”.
“Andrew, are you going to bring me my lemon or do I have to squeeze it from my hat?’
