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Outrageous Fortune
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Outrageous Fortune is a 1987 American comedy Buddy Picture directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Shelley Long and Bette Midler.Lauren Ames (Long) is an aspiring actress whose ambition far outweighs her success, despite her many years of taking classes; Sandy Brozinsky (Midler) is a fast-talking, foul-mouthed waitress from the wrong side of the tracks who horns her way into Lauren's exclusive drama class on a lark. Unbeknown to one another, Sandy and Lauren are both seeing the same impossibly perfect man, Michael Santers (Peter Coyote). When Michael inexplicably fakes his own death, Sandy and Lauren wind up joining forces to track him down. A wacky, cross-country caper ensues, and both women discover that there's a lot more to the man they love—not to mention their suspiciously homicidal Russian acting coach, Korzenowski (Robert Prosky)—than they ever imagined.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Released in early 1987, the film's modest success (it grossed about double its budget) probably seemed to justify to Long her decision to leave the cast of Cheers to pursue a full-time film career.note She officially declined to negotiate to renew her contract on December 15, 1986; her departure from the show aired as the fifth season finale on May 7, 1987. However, it would be followed by a number of high-profile flops (starting with Hello Again, released later that year) and Long wouldn't see box office success again until the ensemble film The Brady Bunch Movie (she was billed second, behind Gary Cole) in 1995. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Sandy is visibly shaken when she believes Lauren has been shot dead. | |
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Sandy, all the freaking time. She's a bit of a Snark Knight. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Lauren develops into this over the course of the film. | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
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Daddy's Girl: Lauren is this, as we see when she tries to borrow money for Korzenowsky's class from her parents. Her mother won't let her in the door; her father throws her a check from the window of their high-rise. | |
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Diagonal Billing: A variant. Both Long and Midler were promised top billing and refused to yield it to the other - so Long got top billing west of the Mississippi, and Midler got it in the east. | |
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Funny Background Event: When Sandy is talking to her boyfriend in the phone company over the phone, Lauren paces impatiently behind her—and can be seen briefly mockingly mimicking Sandy's boisterousness. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Michael Santers. | |
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Literary Allusion Title: Hamlet, in case you don't recognize the quote.... | |
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Rogue Agent | |
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Rogue Agent: What Michael turns out to be. | |
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Lampshade Hanging: When our gals finally manage to reach one of their destinations after an especially exhausting ordeal, a bunch of guys drive by, hooting and whistling and otherwise calling out to them in Head-Turning Beauty fashion. Lauren can't resist: | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Played with. Downplayed for Sandy, who is technically more of The Lad-ette, but Lauren most definitely qualifies as a Girly Girl. | |
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Hidden Depths: Clearly, Michael told Sandy the story about being a teacher too, and after it's exposed as a lie, she tells Lauren that she actually baked cookies for his class, a sign of her softer side. | |
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Scary Black Man: Lauren and Sandy's cab driver. | |
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Stoners Are Funny | |
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Stoners Are Funny: Especially when they're played by George Carlin. | |
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Mugged for Disguise: Lauren and Sandy appropriate Frank's clothes. (At least they're nice enough to leave him their skirts and blouses.) | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Sandy sure loves 'em—which Lauren lampshades. But ironically, the most blatant example in the film is Lauren doing her "Loose Cannon / Badass Cop" impression. | |
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You Need to Get Laid | |
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You Need to Get Laid: Sandy's reply when Lauren explodes at her in their first encounter. Lauren's shocked silence implies it hits VERY close to home. | |
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Adults Dressed as Children: Lauren and Sandy sneak into a whorehouse thinking they're convincingly disguised as men; the madame takes them for thirteen-year-old boys. Our intrepid heroines run with it. | |
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Instant Seduction | |
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Instant Seduction: The first time Lauren meets Michael, he's a customer in the costume shop where she works. She's moved by his telling her he's a teacher trying to find the perfect costume for one of his students who's trying hard to fit in. She offers to help him make one. The very next scene shows the two of them in bed, Michael "apologizing" for the quick turn of events, explaining that "I just...had to kiss you." Lauren, radiant with afterglow, is charmed even more by this. | |
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Shakespearean Actors: What Lauren aspires to be. Her ambition is to play Hamlet, which she finally accomplishes at the end of the film. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Frank. Also, anyone who takes Stanislav Korzenowsky's acting class. | |
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Honey Trap | |
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Honey Trap: This is Michael's MO as a spy, and done to communicate with Stan without raising suspicion. (He plants a note in Lauren's notebook; during the class, Stan inspects the notebooks as per his stated teaching policy, takes the note, and plants a reply in Sandy's notebook, which Mike then recovers. As a result, the two can conduct reconnaissance without meeting in person. | |
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Defector from Commie Land | |
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Defector from Commie Land: Stan's way of avoiding repercussions back in Mother Russia. He is even able to bargain for perks, including a condo on the Potomac and Redskins season tickets. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Nine years of ballet, asshole!" Also counts as a Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Also counts as a Bond One-Liner | |
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Calling Your Orgasms | |
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Calling Your Orgasms: Michael's telltale chant of, "Oh God. Oh God. Ohhh God. Ohhhgod—OHHHGOD!!!" | |
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Ransacked Room | |
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Ransacked Room: The film plays this straight, then spoofs it. First, the two women go to Lauren's apartment while it's being ransacked. After a daring escape, they head to Sandy's place to find it a complete mess as well. Lauren cries, "Oh, no, they've been here!" and tries to run, but Sandy grabs her and says, "Nobody's been here. This is normal." | |
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The Casanova | |
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The Casanova: Michael | |
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The Power of Acting | |
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The Power of Acting: It turns out that Lauren's many years of studying the theater pay off in tracking down Michael and foiling the bad guys. | |
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Gag Penis / Bigger Is Better in Bed: Michael's defining physical characteristic, which is how Lauren and Sandy know the burned corpse at the morgue isn't him. | |
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Serious Business: Lauren does not appreciate any insults to the honor of the theater—to the point where we hear her arguing with Sandy over the value of Hamlet— as the credits start rolling! | |
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Drama Queen: Lauren can certainly be this way. | |
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The Ophelia: Well, in a literal way: Sandy plays Ophelia in the production of Hamlet at the end. | |
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Erotic Eating: Lauren (with sexy Russian Bond Girl voice) + Michael + a chicken leg. | |
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Friend to All Children: Implied, with Lauren. She is clearly very touched when Michael tells her he's trying to find the perfect Halloween costume, to help out a kid who's unable to find acceptance among his classmates. Later, she makes a point to tell Sandy to let her talk to the kid holding them at gunpoint—presumably because she's better with children. | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones: Lauren, fed up with the mystery, kicks open a crackhouse door, waves a toy gun around (back in a day when toy guns looked real), and starts impersonating an angry cop with a screw loose. Even Sandy is shocked. | |
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White Guilt: Lauren gets Tongue-Tied when she tries to say "Caucasian", while trying to describe Michael to the black cab driver—finally settling for nervously dropping race entirely (and announcing it). She ends up panicking over possibly digging herself deeper...and later gets very nervous over the fact that the man soon drives her and Sandy deep into Harlem. Sandy can't resist ribbing her about it. | |
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Sdrawkcab Name: Sort of. Stan's name is almost the reverse of real-life actor Constantin Stanislavsky. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Sandy is red, and Lauren is blue. | |
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Cheap Costume: The ladies are forced to improvise quite frequently. | |
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Vanity Is Feminine: At one point, the gals stop right what they're doing to check their makeup, and then spend the next moment or two remarking on how they look and whether or not their hair colors are natural. | |
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Fake Nationality | |
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Fake Nationality: In-Universe and out: Robert Prosky is an American playing a Russian who, at one point, disguises himself as an American. | |
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Gentleman Snarker | |
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Lauren is a bit of a Lady Snarker. | |
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'80s Hair: Bette Midler's character. It's not teased or anything, but it is as wide as her shoulder-padded shoulders. | |
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Big Bad: Michael Santers. | |
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Odd Couple: Uptight, high-toned Lauren and brash, earthy Sandy. | |
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Lovely Angels: Lauren and Sandy find themselves becoming this, each discovering their Hidden Badass over the course of the film. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Sandy, all the freaking time. She's a bit of a Snark Knight. Stan is quite snarky, himself. Lauren is a bit of a Lady Snarker. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Lauren has a few moments of this. In addition to her nights with Michael, the scene in Stan's waiting room has her dressed in an outfit that has a see-through blouse covering Absolute Cleavage that goes down to her waist. Shortly before Sandy shows up, Lauren engages in some breathing exercises that quickly sound like she's partaking in something else entirely.... | |
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The Lad-ette | |
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The Lad-ette: Sandy's not above talkin' trash and often acting pretty "macho" with the best of them, though she still cares about her physical appearance in the "feminine" fashion, among other things. | |
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Teeny Weenie | |
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Teeny Weenie: The unfortunate fellow at the morgue, falsely identified as Michael, as Sandy tries to explain to the cops: | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: Check out those opening credits. | |
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Identifying the Body | |
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Identifying the Body: After Michael Santers is apparently killed in an explosion, his two girlfriends both insist on identifying the body. Although the body's face was completely burned off, both women agree that the body can't be his because the penis was too small. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Sandy once sarcastically calls out to Lauren as "Lady Di". Shelley Long is, of course, most famous for playing Diane Chambers of Cheers. A retroactive example: When Sandy gives a brief summary of the situation to Frank, he looks at her in bewilderment and asks, "The '60s were good to you, weren't they?" This line would be recycled for Cars, where an inverted version would be asked of George Carlin's character, Fillmore.... | |
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Rabid Cop | |
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Lauren includes this threat in her Rabid Cop impression when she and Sandy interrogate the drug dealers. | |
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Cat Fight | |
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Cat Fight: Lauren and Sandy duke it out in the morgue. | |
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Universal Poison | |
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Universal Poison: What Michael stole. Specifically, a green toxin that will destroy all vegetation around the world with just a few drops. | |
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Disguised in Drag | |
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Disguised in Drag | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
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We Need a Distraction: How about emptying an entire lunchbox filled with money into a crowd of waiting airline passengers? | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Lauren is in many ways a "clone" of Diane Chambers, except that she's also great at ballet. (And Lauren's willing to curse, if the situation calls for it.) Especially notable in that Shelley Long tends to try and downplay any Diane-like "quirks" when playing other characters—but in this film, she at times seems to be cranking it up to eleven. | |
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Briefcase Full of Money | |
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Briefcase Full of Money: Or, rather, a cute, ducky-emblazoned lunchbox full of money. | |
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Gratuitous Russian | |
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Gratuitous Russian | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Threatened by Sandy ("I'll shoot it off, Stan"). Lauren includes this threat in her Rabid Cop impression when she and Sandy interrogate the drug dealers. | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": Practiced by many of Stan's students, as he enjoys pointing out. Even Lauren cringes at the spectacle of one particular student's immensely hammy non-dialogue "performance" of a moment from Oedipus The King. | |
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Good People Have Good Sex | |
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Good People Have Good Sex: Lauren sports a radiant glow and a BIG smile after her night with Michael, which Sandy makes sure to comment on. Michael turns out to be a bad guy, though. | |
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Faking the Dead | |
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Faking the Dead: Michael ultimately does this when he gains the information he needs, substituting a corpse for his own in an accident that ensures the corpse is burned and not identifiable by a casual observer. (Bringing up the ignored implication that he's a murderer.) However, observers who have seen more (like two women he's had sex with) can tell the difference. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Lauren holds a gun to Stan after he tries to kill her, then proceeds to berate him for making a mockery of the New York acting community. Sandy has to rush over to get her to snap out of it.... | |
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