Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 06/12/1992(USA)
Release Date: 07/22/1998
SubTitles: Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DDS
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
In this
romantic comedy from director
Frank Oz,
Steve Martin plays Boston architect
Newton Davis, an impulsive dreamer who builds a bucolic dream home for his girlfriend (
Dana Delany) as a means of proposing to her -- only she turns him down. Three months later, the depressed
Davis meets a waitress who calls herself
Gwen (
Goldie Hawn), though pretending to be Hungarian proves to be only the first of her many deceptions.
Davis has a one-night stand with
Gwen during which he tells her the sad story of the house, which remains unoccupied just outside the city in his hometown of Dobbs Mills, because he can't bear to sell it. Following what seems to be a familiar path for this con artist,
Gwen locates the house, figuring she can take up residence without anyone noticing. During a trip to the local grocery, she ends up telling the proprietor she's
Davis' wife while trying to charge her purchases to his account. When she offers the same story to a local furniture dealer (
Donald Moffat), unaware he's
Davis' father, it triggers a string of fabrications in which the shocked
Davis unwittingly becomes a co-conspirator. Seeing an opportunity of his own,
Davis allows
Gwen to stay in the house and agrees to go along with her story in hopes of winning back his jealous ex. Of course, this also necessitates outlandish lie upon outlandish lie, leaving the whole enterprise forever on the verge of collapse.
~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
