Outrageous Fortune

Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don’t know they are sharing a lover…

• Director:Arthur Hiller
• Genre:Comedy / Mystery
• Runtime:99 minutes

Cast

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

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, Michael Sanders (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them. The man works for the KGB, and has stolen a toxin that could destroy huge areas of nature with even a few drops. The women chase the man across America, coming across the CIA and other men cheated by the double agent. Finally, when a trade with the CIA for the toxin goes awry, and Lauren gets away with both the money and the toxin, with Michael in hot pursuit, cornered on a series of mountain tops, Lauren uses her former ballet skills to evade him, culmilating in a grand Jeté, as pursuing Michael slips and is killed on the rocks far below whilst the money is lost to native Indians. The women form a lasting friendship, and go on to perform Hamlet together, with Lauren in the title role. Read more

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