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Roddy McDowall
Executive Producer -
Garry Marshall
Director -
Shane Kerwin
Production Assistant -
Alan Silvestri
Original Music Composer -
Donald O. Mitchell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer -
Randy Newman
Songs -
John A. Alonzo
Director of Photography -
Barbara Lorenz
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Peter McGinn 6/23/2021 3:58:43 PM
This movie wouldn’t make any of my top 20 lists (if I took the time to create some) but I think it is a charming film, and that is quite an accomplishment. Because if it weren’t for the talented ensemble main actors, Garry Marshall directing, and a witty script (the writer has Pay it Forward and others on her resume), this movie could easily have been a stinker. As it is, it has a lot of laughs, cute child actors, some character development, and a fun time for all. It is priceless to watch the Goldie Hawk character go from snooty, haughty rich bitch, to a sensitive self-deprecating amnesiac mom who is not cut out for motherhood and in over her head. What she learns about herself doesn’t come from her memory, but from what the Kurt Russell character relates to her, so she hears how she had sex with him their first date and she says, “I’m a slut.” Sexist, of course, but at least she is saying it about herself, and she does come through for her ‘family’ in the end. It is a harmless good time. I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch it, but I wouldn’t change channels if it came on either. As an aside, I haven’t seen the remake, so I can’t make comparisons. Probably should judge both on their own merits anyway, right?
Goldie Hawn
Joanna Stayton / Annie ProffittKurt Russell
Dean ProffittRoddy McDowall
AndrewHector Elizondo
Garbage Scow Skipper (uncredited)Bing Russell
Elk Cove: Sheriff EarlEdward Herrmann
Grant Stayton IIIRichard Stahl
Elk Cove: Hospital PsychiatristSven-Ole Thorsen
Olaf, Stayton Flunky (uncredited)