Oh wait, it was directed by Garry Marshall, there's a hint right there.
But I've never seen one by him THIS bad.
So basically, Goldie plays this horrible rich witch (okay, word rhymes with it), a one-dimensional snob, absolutely 100 percent spoiled, who treats people like trash.
Now, this carpenter played by Russell is on the end of her abuse, esp. After he makes this thing to store all her shoes in, on her yacht. She refuses to pay him, throws his stuff in the ocean (or lake, whatever) and basically, after she herself later falls in at night, after simply trying to get her wedding ring (while her hubby watches a TV shows about the world's greatest yachts), she falls overboard.
After she arrives in town with amnesia, and verbally abuses the people there at the hospital, the carpenter Russell, after seeing this on TV, pretends SHE is his wife, simply to make her his slave.
He forces her to deal with his awful kids, and she then has to learn how to cook and clean, which in this case involves some of the most disgusting things and ways. (This is done with him figuring how long she will be his slave - his word - until his $600 is paid off)
And she is basically humiliated in every which way, down to how she is forced to dress. Basically, she is abused constantly, and lives in a nightmare.
While early on, her snobby self DID seem she deserved some kind of comeuppance, this is taking it WAY too far.
Since when in the world is kidnapping okay?
And then, all the mental abuse she is put through.
And THEN, under the guise of they were married of course, she falls for him, and they have sex. She gets a case of Stockholm Syndrome, so somehow this is all right?!??
Rape by deception, how romantic, how funny, right?!?
Eventually Mr. Rich Husband finds out and comes and gets her, she is kinder to her servants for being put through hell, and misses the kidnapping carpenter, and so Marshall stages some sickening BS way for them to have a "happy" "romantic" ending.
This is one of the most horrible movies I have EVER seen.
The fact that many people like this shows something seriously wrong with the world, as if if people are emotionally manipulated into being TOLD what is funny, or what is romantic, they then just accept it.
This movie should never have been made and the script should have been burned.
Goldie Hawn has some good movies but by no means is this one of them. Wretched and revolting. I'm sorry I ever saw this. People who like this should be forced to watch the movie Something Wild from 1961 and see if they find that movie "funny" or "romantic" as well...
But I've never seen one by him THIS bad.
So basically, Goldie plays this horrible rich witch (okay, word rhymes with it), a one-dimensional snob, absolutely 100 percent spoiled, who treats people like trash.
Now, this carpenter played by Russell is on the end of her abuse, esp. After he makes this thing to store all her shoes in, on her yacht. She refuses to pay him, throws his stuff in the ocean (or lake, whatever) and basically, after she herself later falls in at night, after simply trying to get her wedding ring (while her hubby watches a TV shows about the world's greatest yachts), she falls overboard.
After she arrives in town with amnesia, and verbally abuses the people there at the hospital, the carpenter Russell, after seeing this on TV, pretends SHE is his wife, simply to make her his slave.
He forces her to deal with his awful kids, and she then has to learn how to cook and clean, which in this case involves some of the most disgusting things and ways. (This is done with him figuring how long she will be his slave - his word - until his $600 is paid off)
And she is basically humiliated in every which way, down to how she is forced to dress. Basically, she is abused constantly, and lives in a nightmare.
While early on, her snobby self DID seem she deserved some kind of comeuppance, this is taking it WAY too far.
Since when in the world is kidnapping okay?
And then, all the mental abuse she is put through.
And THEN, under the guise of they were married of course, she falls for him, and they have sex. She gets a case of Stockholm Syndrome, so somehow this is all right?!??
Rape by deception, how romantic, how funny, right?!?
Eventually Mr. Rich Husband finds out and comes and gets her, she is kinder to her servants for being put through hell, and misses the kidnapping carpenter, and so Marshall stages some sickening BS way for them to have a "happy" "romantic" ending.
This is one of the most horrible movies I have EVER seen.
The fact that many people like this shows something seriously wrong with the world, as if if people are emotionally manipulated into being TOLD what is funny, or what is romantic, they then just accept it.
This movie should never have been made and the script should have been burned.
Goldie Hawn has some good movies but by no means is this one of them. Wretched and revolting. I'm sorry I ever saw this. People who like this should be forced to watch the movie Something Wild from 1961 and see if they find that movie "funny" or "romantic" as well...