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Summary: Lots of Laughs
Review: A charming comedy played superbly by Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn.
Martin plays a decently successful architect and uses his talent to build a house for his high-school sweatheart. He is rather romantically inclined and presents her with this engagement gift wrapped in a big red ribbon. This scares away his high-school sweatheart as she interprets it as him being too imaginative and living in the fantasy-land than being a down-to-earth man, she'd prefer to be with.
Heartbroken, he ends up in a Hungarian restaurant to wash away his woes and eventually pours out his heart to a waitress, played by Goldie Hawn, who doesn't stop a beat to take advantage of the situation. She is an adventurous free-spirit, endowed with wild imagination, who believes that life is to be experienced and she'll do whatever it takes to experience the richness of life.
After spending one night with the architect, she promptly packs and unbeknonst to him, move into his newly built house. After all, why leave such a lovely house empty? She quickly gets acquainted with local people, charges everything to the architect's account and gets to meet even his parents, to him she presents herself as the architect's wife. As unique as she is - an acquired taste, as her make-believe inlaws would say, she has a very charming personality and everybody delights in her presence. Whatever the situation, she always has a ready answer, often backed with a wild and outrageous story.
When Martin shows up at his newly-built house and finds her there, he is at first stunned, but figures that the only way to get out of it is by incorporating and continuing her make-believe stories and inventing that they are now getting divorced. Not only her parents get involved, but also the local priest, who acts as a marriage counsellor, attempting to help them rescue the marriage.
Steve Martin is not so good at coming with impromptu answers and he usually botches things up, but Goldie Hawn, quite experienced at playing the game, always manages to rescue the situation. She utterly enjoys playing the game and continues playing her own agenda. She even manages to get him promoted.
All the events draw attention of his high-school sweatheart who develops some new interest in him - though they face themselves once again with their individual preferences as Martin discovers that he much prefers to live in a wild and imaginary world of Goldie Hawn, which has infused him with added spice and zest for life.
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Summary: A VERY-feel-good movie
Review: A fun and funny story about living life to the fullest. Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin have great chemistry together in this romantic comedy. It doesn't make you think very hard but reminds you that you can always change the situation you're in and become the person you want to be.
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Summary: You can't be depressed watching this
Review: Any time I feel down or just want to laugh I watch this movie. In fact my husband won't watch it any more. We have many of Goldie Hawn's movies. I have never seen a bad one. Steve Martin and Goldie are perfect together. So if you like to laugh get this movie. Also The out of towners is such fun. I have seen it 3 times.
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Summary: GUARANTEED FUN
Review: Forget what the uptight film critics had to say. If you enjoy Steve Martin at his best, and if you're a fan of Goldie Hawn, this movie's a keeper. Is it silly, goofy and a bit predictable? Yes. But who cares? It's a comedy, and that's what's comedies should be. Martin, Hawn, along with a wonderful supporting cast make for a memorable movie!...
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Summary: CUTE COMEDY
Review: Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin make for a great screen couple in the cute comedy HOUSESITTER.When architect Newton Davis (Steve Martin) builds his dream house for his intended bride, Becky (Dana Delany), and then she turns down his proposal, his life is turned upside down, and the house is merely a monument to his rejection and failure. A chance meeting with Gwen (Goldie Hawn), a spunky waitress, soon has dire consequences. Gwen goes down to the empty house and promptly tells all in the tiny town that she is Newton's wife, and that they are happily married! Things get worse when Gwen befriends Becky and Newton's parents! Will Newton realise what he has before it's too late? Or will Gwen disappear as swiftly as she arrived? The great DVD also includes the original theatrical trailer, production notes and cast/filmmaker's notes.
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Summary: ¿Oh what a tangle web we weave¿
Review: Gwen is a person with many sides and stories to match. Just as you have her figures out she is someone else (several someone elses.) Imagination abounds as Newton Davis struggles to keep up. "Oh what a tangle web we weave" and it really gets tangled.
You know Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin have to be good. What you were not told was how great the supporting cast is. Donald Moffat "The Borurne Identity"(1988) ASIN: 6302779286, plays George Davis the estranged father that Gwen (Goldie Hawn) reconciles with son, Newton (Steve Martin). George asks, "What do young people think marriage is today?" Gwen asks, "You don't want me to write and essay?"
One character not on the cast list is the house it's self. It is beautifully designed with lots of architectural amities. There is a large window that frames the lake. And mobile book cases to form quasi walls.
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Summary: Cleaning House
Review: Housesitter is a fun little comedy, that thanks to a dynamic duo, and solid direction, ends up being better than the script would have you believe. Architect Newton Davis (Steve Martin) builds his dream house, and plans to ask girlfriend Becky (Dana Delany) to marry him, so that they can have a happy life together. The only thing is--she turns him down. Dejected, Newton has a chance meeting with Gwen (Goldie Hawn), a homeless free spirit, who decides to move into the empty house. Gwen evetually turns Newton's life upside down, becomes friends with Becky, and charms his family, posing as his new bride. Directed by Frank Oz, the film, is helped along by Martin and Hawn. The pair has great give and take, which makes things seem less predictable, and provides for substantial chuckles. Although Martin wopuld repeat the same "uptight" schitick in 2003's Bringing Down The House, this works a bit better. Hawn works as an equal in Housesitter, as opposed to Latifah, who steals the show in the more recent film. Housesitter doesn't try to change the world and isn't even the best of its kind. Indeed, it's just a simple comedy that will make you smile and is lots of fun. The only extras on the DVD are a few production notes and the theatrical trailer. Housesitter is recommended for everyone, but, is a must for fans of Martin and Hawn
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Summary: A Cheap Immitation
Review: Housesitter is an awful remake of the charming 1941 movie It Started with Eve. Unlike Deanna Durbin's character, who is honest and likeable, Goldie Hawn plays a pathological liar no decent person could respect. In fact, the whole plot of the original has been so cheapened that it's hard to accept any of the relationships between characters, or the final outcome. The two movies share a cast of characters in similar roles, and even humorous scenes like tripping over a living-room chair, but the wholesome quality of the original is totally lost in Housesitter. The film's only saving grace is the superb acting of its well-picked cast. The story line, though, has been shamefully distorted. I would expect a remake to improve on the original, but comparing these two films saddens me to think how far American screenwriting has deteriorated in the past 50 years.
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Summary: One of My All Time Favorites
Review: I remember being 14 and going to see this movie on opening weekend with my sister, I was a big Goldie Hawn fan at that point and I fell for her big time after seeing her in "Overboard", another underrated comedy from Goldie's cinema showcase. Even though this movie mostly got mixed reviews, I loved it instantly and ordered it constantly on PPV until I managed to get my hands on a tape of it. It is truly hilarious and the comedy team of Goldie Hawn & Steve Martin is absolutely magical perfection. This movie has so many laughs in it that one would be hard pressed to pick 1 certain defining moment but it is well worth the price and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to laugh. Also recommended is Goldie's other hit from the summer of '92, "Death Becomes Her".
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Summary: One of My All Time Favorites
Review: I remember being 14 and going to see this movie on opening weekend with my sister, I was a big Goldie Hawn fan at that point and I fell for her big time after seeing her in "Overboard", another underrated comedy from Goldie's cinema showcase. Even though this movie mostly got mixed reviews, I loved it instantly and ordered it constantly on PPV until I managed to get my hands on a tape of it. It is truly hilarious and the comedy team of Goldie Hawn & Steve Martin is absolutely magical perfection. This movie has so many laughs in it that one would be hard pressed to pick 1 certain defining moment but it is well worth the price and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to laugh. Also recommended is Goldie's other hit from the summer of '92, "Death Becomes Her".
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