Overboard (2018)
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A struggling single mother convinces an amnesiac playboy that they are married to secure a better life.
The story
Kate Sullivan is a widowed single mother of three daughters who works two jobs while studying to be a nurse. While cleaning the yacht of a spoiled, arrogant playboy named Leo Montenegro, she is fired and pushed overboard after refusing to bring him food. Meanwhile, Leo falls off his yacht and wakes up on a beach with total amnesia. When Kate and her friend Theresa see a news report about his condition, they decide to take advantage of his memory loss by convincing him that he is actually married to Kate.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Kate Sullivan, a widowed mother of three, works two jobs while studying nursing. After being fired and pushed off a yacht by the arrogant playboy Leo Montenegro, she discovers Leo has fallen into the ocean and developed amnesia. Kate and her friend Theresa convince the confused Leo that he is married to Kate. Kate introduces him to her daughters, and they begin a domestic life together. Leo eventually bonds with the girls, and Kate begins to feel guilty about the lie but continues it because the children enjoy his company. Meanwhile, Leo's sisters, Magdalena and Sofia, are trying to take over their father's company; Magdalena falsely claims Leo was killed by a shark to seize control. Leo eventually discovers the truth when his father finds him. Hurt, Leo returns to his yacht, but after realizing how selfish his former life was, he agrees to reunite with Kate and the girls. After a series of dramatic events involving a boat chase and a jump into the water, Leo and Kate share a kiss and decide to stay together. Leo's father eventually names Sofia as his successor, and Leo and Kate marry aboard the yacht.
- First release year
- 2018
- Runtime (minutes)
- 112
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Rob Greenberg
- Writers
- Bob Fisher · screenplay; Rob Greenberg · screenplay; Leslie Dixon · screenplay
- Cast and characters
- Eugenio Derbez · Leo; Anna Faris · Kate; Cecilia Suárez · Goldie Hawn role; Eva Longoria · co-star; John Hannah · co-star; Mel Rodriguez · co-star; Mariana Treviño · co-star; Fernando Luján · co-star
- Genres
- romantic comedy
- Themes
- class dynamics; memory; family
- Tone and mood
- bubbly; comic
- Premise and plot tags
- gender-reversed remake; amnesia; interclass romance
- Source material / true-story basis
- 1987 film
- Reception
- 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. It received mixed or average reviews on Metacritic.
- Reported review scores
- Metacritic · score: 42 · scale: 100 · review count: 27; PostTrak · score: 83% · scale: overall positive score
- Production trivia
- The film was rescheduled multiple times in 2018 to avoid competing with Avengers: Infinity War.; Anna Faris was cast after Rupaul suggested a remake of a Goldie Hawn film.; The film was shot in Vancouver.
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