Real-life Hollywood couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn star in Overboard, a film in which Hawn plays an heiress, Joanna Stayton. Joanna has no empathy for the less fortunate, and she stiffs a carpenter, Dean Proffitt (Russell), by refusing to pay him for the work he’s always done on her boat. In other words, Joanna is a real nightmare of a person until she falls off her yacht and loses her memory.
Joanna’s husband, Grant Stayton III (Edward Herrmann), cares so little about her that he doesn’t even bother to look for her. Dean, on the other hand, is looking for some payback by convincing Joanna that she’s his wife, Annie, and the mother of his four sons. It may seem like a dire fate for Joanna, but she proves to be adept at running a household, and she’s a better mother to the boys than Dean is as a father. She may even be able to help Dean change himself and keep his family together.
Overboard is streaming on Prime Video.
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