55
Metascore
18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80EmpireWilliam ThomasEmpireWilliam ThomasLeslie Dixon’s script is effective, though sometimes seems stranded between the domestic humour and the big issues being played out. Still, engaging, undemanding stuff.
- 75Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyVeteran Arthur Hiller, who directed Peter Falk and Alan Arkin in The In-Laws and Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in Silver Streak, proves equally adept at managing a female odd couple.
- 67Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe one full-fledged inspiration of Outrageous Fortune is the pairing of Long and Midler into a team that adds up to even more than the sum of its parts.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is a movie that has its commercial concept written all over it; it's so painstakingly crafted as a product that the messy spontaneity of life is rarely allowed to interrupt.
- 50Time OutTime OutAs a vehicle for their considerable comic talents, the enterprise is wheelclamped by type casting.
- Outrageous Fortune is an effort on the part of Disney to prove it can distribute adult films, but it only shows that it has no real perception of what such pictures are all about.
- 50Chicago TribuneDave KehrChicago TribuneDave KehrIt's a dim, thoroughly synthetic film, so far removed from its source--much less from any original creative impulse--that it barely seems to exist. [30 Jan 1987, p.A]
- 40Washington PostPaul AttanasioWashington PostPaul AttanasioSuch rarefied screen writing calls for the peerless talents of Arthur Hiller, a director with the comic timing of a tax auditor.
- 37Chicago ReaderPat GrahamChicago ReaderPat GrahamDirector Arthur Hiller (Love Story, Silver Streak) just puts his apolitical head down and digs into the mess without worrying about style or sense.