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Released
1987 · FILM

Outrageous Fortune

“The CIA is trailing them, the KGB is tracking them, the phone company is tracing them, the police are chasing them, the cowboys are herding them, and the Indians are hunting them. Are they going to fall for all of that?”

Directed by
Arthur Hiller
Written by
Leslie Dixon
Runtime
100 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theater professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, also ends up studying with Korzenowski through happenstance. The two women find themselves dating the same man, who turns out to be a double agent, and they follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tom RolfShot by David M WalshScored by Alan SilvestriDesigned by James Dowell Vance

Box Office

1987 · Box office

Grossed $52.9M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$52.9M

Worldwide gross$52.9M

Opening weekend: $6.4M — 12% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $8.3M — 16% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,081 theaters

Also known as

  • Nichts als Ärger mit dem Typde
  • Increíble suertees
  • Une chance pas croyablefr
  • Una fortuna sfacciatait

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