Synopsis :
Joanna Stayton (Goldie Hawn) is the pampered wife of pretentious socialite Grant Stayton III (Edward Herrmann). When their yacht gets stuck in Elk Cove for repairs, Joanna employs carpenter Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell) to improve her closet space. However, when Dean asks to be paid, he’s blatantly turned down by Joanna, claiming that the closet is not up to her standards. So when Joanna falls overboard and develops amnesia, Dean takes advantage of the situation and, in a stroke of retributive genius, tells her that she’s his wife and the mother of his four unruly children. Joanna, now believing that her name is Annie, struggles to become a housewife and mother for the first time. Soon, Joanna adapts to her new life and she begins to fall in love with Dean and the children; she accepts her life as the woman of the house. Eventually, her memories return to her and she leaves Dean to rejoin Grant and her “life of privilege”. However, Joanna is no longer the woman she once was and she longs for her former life with Dean and the children. Joanna leaves Grant and, after a grandiose gesture made by the Proffitts, she lives happily after after with Dean and the children, only now on her yacht, instead of Dean’s shack.
A Bollywood film running on similar themes and plot was made in 1992 with Salman Khan named Ek Ladka Ek Ladki.
A Korean drama television series, Couple or Trouble, based on this movie was broadcast in 2006.
Starring :
Goldie Hawn … Joanna Stayton / Annie Proffitt
Kurt Russell … Dean Proffitt
Edward Herrmann … Grant Stayton III
Katherine Helmond … Edith Mintz
Mike Hagerty … Billy Pratt (as Michael Hagerty)
Roddy McDowall … Andrew
Jared Rushton … Charlie Proffitt
Jeffrey Wiseman … Joey Proffitt
Brian Price … Travis Proffitt
Jamie Wild … Greg Proffitt
Frank Campanella … Captain Karl
Henry Alan Miller … Dr. Norman Korman
Frank Buxton … Wilbur Budd (Elk Cove)
Carol Williard … Rose Budd (Elk Cove)
Doris Hess … Adele Burbridge (Elk Cove)
Director :
Garry Marshall
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