Wonderful Movie

ridiculous rating

Powerful

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

My wife wanted to watch this so I reluctantly joined her. It turned out to be a decent comedy. Both Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn played their roles well. Martin is an architect who builds this new house, and Goldie Hawn is this kind of con artist who worms her way into living there, and eventually pretending that she is his wife.They are both really great with tales. The way they could spin stories on the fly to any and everyone was just fun to watch. Had me laughing pretty regularly. Also, since we live in MA, we kept trying to guess what city/cities they used for Dobbs Mills town. The architecture firm owner, don't know his name, was also very good. Dana Delancy plays this spiffy preppy woman, and I really didn't like her that much, which I think means she did an OK job. It was hard to figure out if the Director was trying to get you to root for her or for Goldie Hawn.Anyhow, it comes in at 90 minutes and I would recommend it to catch Martin and Hawn when they were still young enough to pull this off. Enjoy.

This is the opposite of The Invention of Lying, and has a scene that will remind you of What About Bob. (if you've seen that) Steve Martin plays an architect who builds a dreamhouse with the intention of moving into it after he proposes to his girlfriend-unfortunately, she says no. He then has a chance encounter with a waitress (Goldie Hawn), who overhears his story, and decides to check out the vacant house, and turns it into HER dreamhouse. The thing is, she's brilliant at spinning stories and lies off the top of her head, and is totally charming while doing so, and convinces everyone in town, including Martin's parents, that they're married;however, Martin has no clue till he comes over to try and sell the house. Upon discovering her there and what's happening, he has no choice but to play along and try his hand at spur-of-the-moment lying himself.Hawn and Martin work well in the leads, everyone else works well together, and the movie is pretty funny from start to finish. Hawn is perfect in her part. If you like comedies, you will like this one. You can probably guess the outcome midway thru due to formula, but you will have lots of fun along the way.** 1/2 out of ****

This movie from 1992 is very lightweight but enjoyable. Mainly for the two main characters, played by Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. Each of them are so likable, and together it just doubles the enjoyment. Martin has been silver-haired for so long, when we sere them in this movie we take it for granted he is an older man to Hawn's younger woman. In fact, both of them were born in 1945, and both were around 45 or 46 here during filming.Steve Martin is associate architect Newton Davis, itching to make it big but mired in a large firm. One fateful evening after a function, he finds out that the "Hungarian" waitress is really an American. He is attracted to her, they go outside, it begins to rain, he ends up at her spartan apartment above the restaurant, he spends the night. Goldie Hawn is the waitress, Gwen Phillips. When she wakes up the next morning she is surprised to find Newton gone. She doesn't know how to contact him, but has saved a napkin he used to draw a sketch of a house he designed and built in his small home town.When she gets thrown out of her apartment, she does what a very enterprising person might, she takes a bus to the small town and uses the sketch on the napkin to find the house. Vacant, she moves in, starts furnishing the place, and tells the local that she is Mrs Davis, his wife. Even Newton's parents! She becomes the unauthorized "house sitter."All this sets the stage for the comedy that ensues. Martin and Hawn are perfect together, they make a good comedic team.

Everything about this gem of a movie is crafted expertly. The chemistry between Hawn and Martin is delightful - they obviously had a lot of fun working together (at one point you can even see Hawn corpsing on screen after Martin falls over a settee!). The supporting characters are perfectly cast, the music is just right and the whole world the film creates is enchanting. However it's Mark Stein's script that really makes the film special; it's probably the film my wife and I have watched together more times than any other and there are countless lines in it that have entered our lives. And if the film has a message, then it's the really rather profound one that we all need some imagination and creativity in our relationships to keep them alive.