Outrageous Fortune

Jan 30, 1987

1h 40m

★ 6.0

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?

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Interscope Communications

Touchstone Pictures

Silver Screen Partners II

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Cast

Lauren Ames

Shelley Long

Sandy Brozinsky

Bette Midler

Michael Sanders

Peter Coyote

Stanislav Korzenowski

Robert Prosky

Agent Atkins

John Schuck

Weldon

Anthony Heald

Frank Madras

George Carlin

Cab Driver

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Ticket Agent

Florence Stanley

Tobacco Clerk

Jerry Zaks

Police Lieutenant

John DiSanti

Madam

Diana Bellamy

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