"Overboard" (PG-13, 1:52) is a romantic comedy which is a remake of the 1987 film starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and directed by Garry Marshall. The 2018 version is directed by Rob Greenberg (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Leslie Dixon, Bob Fisher and Greenberg. It maintains the same basic plot as the original, but swaps the genders of the two main characters and adds some spice (and a lot of comedic opportunities), by casting a well-known Hispanic actor as the male lead.
Popular and influential Mexican actor-comedian-writer-director-producer Eugenio Derbez stars as Leonardo, a rich and totally self-absorbed Mexican playboy. As his entrepreneur father lay ill back home, the heir apparent to lead his father's company gallivants off of the U.S. Pacific coast on his hugely extravagant yacht (or "floating orgy", as his sister calls it). Meanwhile, his sisters, Magdalena (Cecilia Suarez) and Sofia (Mariana Trevino), hold vigil at their father's bedside, the former angling to see how she might become the one to take over her father's company when he dies, and the latter trying to mend fences after a contentious history with her father and make up for lost time, while there is time.
Anna Farris plays Kate, a working-class single mother of three girls. Kate works two jobs (as a pizza delivery driver and a carpet cleaner), while she struggles to pay the bills, raise her kids and finish studying for her nursing exam. She has the emotional support of her friend, Theresa (Eva Longoria), and Theresa's husband, Bobby (Mel Rodriguez), but that only goes so far. Things go from bad to worse when Kate's mother (Swoosie Kurtz) backs out on her commitment to help take care of the girls so she can pursue her dream of acting and then Kate has a run-in with Leonardo while cleaning the carpets on his yacht, he treats her very badly and causes her to get fired. And then... Kate receives an eviction notice.
One night, Leonardo gets drunk, falls off his yacht, washes up on shore and develops amnesia. Seeing his picture in the newspaper (and spurred on by Theresa), Kate shows up at the hospital and claims Leonardo as her husband. It takes some convincing, but Kate gets Leo (as she calls him) to come home with her, get a construction job (working for Bobby) and cook, clean and help take care of the girls so she can devote more time to studying. Leo eventually takes to this life (and even starts to thrive in it), while Kate and her daughters take to him. But what will happen after Kate finally takes her test?
"Overboard" is thoroughly enjoyable! Farris and Derbez are both great comic actors who make a terrific comic duo - each doing some of their best work to date. Greenberg surrounds them with wonderful characters and gives everyone funny (and sometimes touching) things to say and do. This movie is predictable and not terribly realistic or original, but it sure is entertaining! "A-"
Popular and influential Mexican actor-comedian-writer-director-producer Eugenio Derbez stars as Leonardo, a rich and totally self-absorbed Mexican playboy. As his entrepreneur father lay ill back home, the heir apparent to lead his father's company gallivants off of the U.S. Pacific coast on his hugely extravagant yacht (or "floating orgy", as his sister calls it). Meanwhile, his sisters, Magdalena (Cecilia Suarez) and Sofia (Mariana Trevino), hold vigil at their father's bedside, the former angling to see how she might become the one to take over her father's company when he dies, and the latter trying to mend fences after a contentious history with her father and make up for lost time, while there is time.
Anna Farris plays Kate, a working-class single mother of three girls. Kate works two jobs (as a pizza delivery driver and a carpet cleaner), while she struggles to pay the bills, raise her kids and finish studying for her nursing exam. She has the emotional support of her friend, Theresa (Eva Longoria), and Theresa's husband, Bobby (Mel Rodriguez), but that only goes so far. Things go from bad to worse when Kate's mother (Swoosie Kurtz) backs out on her commitment to help take care of the girls so she can pursue her dream of acting and then Kate has a run-in with Leonardo while cleaning the carpets on his yacht, he treats her very badly and causes her to get fired. And then... Kate receives an eviction notice.
One night, Leonardo gets drunk, falls off his yacht, washes up on shore and develops amnesia. Seeing his picture in the newspaper (and spurred on by Theresa), Kate shows up at the hospital and claims Leonardo as her husband. It takes some convincing, but Kate gets Leo (as she calls him) to come home with her, get a construction job (working for Bobby) and cook, clean and help take care of the girls so she can devote more time to studying. Leo eventually takes to this life (and even starts to thrive in it), while Kate and her daughters take to him. But what will happen after Kate finally takes her test?
"Overboard" is thoroughly enjoyable! Farris and Derbez are both great comic actors who make a terrific comic duo - each doing some of their best work to date. Greenberg surrounds them with wonderful characters and gives everyone funny (and sometimes touching) things to say and do. This movie is predictable and not terribly realistic or original, but it sure is entertaining! "A-"