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everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is a charming, light, sweet screwball comedy, with an excellent ensemble cast all wonderful in their roles. Goldie Hawn beautifully plays a charming, off-beat con artist, whose pathological lying and skewed take on reality unwittingly lead her to bring about genuine love and kindness. Along the way, she reunites a family; sheds light on the old flame of her "victim" Steve Martin (exposing the motivations of the woman who broke his heart); and creates two new families proving that, in the movies at least, you may be able to make a silk purse from a sow's ear.Both Hawn and Martin excel in their roles and they work really well together. Hawn's kooky and lovable small con-artist is perfect against Martin's straight laced conservative architect and the strange double life they have to lead, due to their constant lies, makes for an entertaining story. They are ably supported by a great cast of character actors and the character combinations make for some great scenes.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

I would have thought this film would have had a somewhat higher rating. But then I remember 2 things I have learned over several years of reading and writing reviews for IMDb. First, that IMDBers don't understand comedy...all to often they think if a film has some humor in it, it's a comedy...not realizing that most lives have humor in them, even though life is a pretty serious thing. Not understanding the difference between a film that is generally a drama and generally a comedy...well, that's a real issue if one is writing a review. But that's not the issue here. No, the issue here is a lack of an adult perspective about comedy. This comedy isn't about farting or puking or a misunderstanding about cocaine. It's about two adults getting themselves into a most unusual situation, often based on comical misunderstandings.This is an especially good role for Goldie Hawn; there's a maturity here that didn't always come through with Hawn, although she was almost always quite good on the big screen. And, a very good role for Steve Martin, too. Martin could tackle many different roles from the absurd to the subtly humorous.Dana Delany is good as the "other woman". I was disappointed to see the wonderful actress Julie Harris as Steve Martin's mother...too much of a secondary role for a classic actress. Donald Moffat was perfect as Martin's father; another reliable character actor. It's always a pleasure to see Peter MacNicol, here as a colleague, although this is hardly his most intriguing role.Of course, we know from the beginning that ultimately Martin and Hawn will actually fall in love. The question is how they will get to that point. It's quite an entertaining film...unless you're looking for raunch humor.

This is a lovely, easy-watching family film. Typical early nineties romcom with plenty of scope for both Hawn and Martin's particular brands of humour. Goldie Hawn is always nice to watch, and Steve Martin is always golden doing comedy and this isn't an exception. There were shades of Gil Buckman (his character in Parenthood) in this, which is one of my favourite films, and he was pretty flawless in this role too. Martin plays Newton Davis, an architect who's down on his luck in life and love, a bit downtrodden, and by chance he meets "Gwen" (Hawn) a pretty waitress who it soon turns out is a bit of a teller of tall tales. She uses him as a hook to con her way into an ideal life for herself, by posing as his new wife in his home town, and of course it's funny, sweet, and more than a little bit silly. The blagging is improbable, but perhaps in a small town you could pull it off and you sort of admire her guts and determination! Really nice supporting cast including Donald Moffat and Julie Harris as Martin's parents.There's nothing unpredictable in this, no surprises; it is what it is, a nice film where you laugh a bit and feel good at the end. The film is as infectious as Goldie Hawn's smile, and Steve Martin's eyebrows! Enjoy.

The genre of romantic comedy is one that has long since settled into a rut that is comfortable for faithful viewers and film-makers alike... the symbiosis of the former group making it worthwhile for the latter to spend millions is thus kept intact, leaving us with only one place to expect anything fresh, any spark of originality from, as far as these films go: The overall and specific ideas behind individual ones. I can't think of another movie that has the same as this one. The plot is interesting and develops nicely throughout, with genuine surprises along the way. This is sporadically funny, although several occurrences are downright hilarious. The writing varies, and a lot of the material, and that goes for jokes, gags and the script in general, come off as if they were mainly going for just exactly being above the minimum required. "Passable". The caricatures that inhabit this are paper-thin stereotypes that keep playing the one note they've been provided, until(and after) their poor, punished instruments break. The acting is fine, but every single famous person in the cast has done better elsewhere. There's no violence, mild sensuality, and language is reasonable in both amount and tone. I recommend this to the biggest fans of Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. 6/10