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Overboard (2018)

Overboard poster
Directed by
Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg
Genre
comedy film, romance film
Country
Mexico, United States
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 1,506 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A hardworking single mom convinces a wealthy amnesiac that they are married. He must adjust to a working-class life while she tries to keep up the lie.

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What happens

Overboard is a 2018 American romantic comedy film directed by Rob Greenberg, who wrote the screenplay with Bob Fisher and Leslie Dixon. A characteristically-reversed remake of the original 1987 film (also scripted by Dixon), the film stars Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, and Cecilia Suárez (in the Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, and Edward Herrmann roles, respectively). Eva Longoria and John Hannah co-star. It follows Kate, a struggling, working-class single mother who convinces the rich playboy with amnesia Leo that they are married. Overboard was released in the United States on May 4, 2018, and grossed $91 million worldwide against a budget of $12 million. The film received unfavorable reviews from critics, who praised Faris' comedic performance but criticized the story as mediocre and failing to distinguish itself from the original. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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