Housesitter
by Frank Oz
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Actor: Dana Delany, Donald Moffat, Goldie Hawn, Julie Harris, Steve MartinDirector: Frank Oz
Brand: Universal Studios
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo
Producer: Bernard Williams
Producer: Brian Grazer
Writer: Brian Grazer
Producer: Karen Kehela Sherwood
Producer: Michelle Wright
Writer: Mark Stein
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-07-22
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Housesitter
Movie Review: Lots of Laughs
Summary: 5 Stars
A charming comedy played superbly by Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn.
Martin plays a decently successful architect and uses his talent to build a house for his high-school sweatheart. He is rather romantically inclined and presents her with this engagement gift wrapped in a big red ribbon. This scares away his high-school sweatheart as she interprets it as him being too imaginative and living in the fantasy-land than being a down-to-earth man, she'd prefer to be with.
Heartbroken, he ends up in a Hungarian restaurant to wash away his woes and eventually pours out his heart to a waitress, played by Goldie Hawn, who doesn't stop a beat to take advantage of the situation. She is an adventurous free-spirit, endowed with wild imagination, who believes that life is to be experienced and she'll do whatever it takes to experience the richness of life.
After spending one night with the architect, she promptly packs and unbeknonst to him, move into his newly built house. After all, why leave such a lovely house empty? She quickly gets acquainted with local people, charges everything to the architect's account and gets to meet even his parents, to him she presents herself as the architect's wife. As unique as she is - an acquired taste, as her make-believe inlaws would say, she has a very charming personality and everybody delights in her presence. Whatever the situation, she always has a ready answer, often backed with a wild and outrageous story.
When Martin shows up at his newly-built house and finds her there, he is at first stunned, but figures that the only way to get out of it is by incorporating and continuing her make-believe stories and inventing that they are now getting divorced. Not only her parents get involved, but also the local priest, who acts as a marriage counsellor, attempting to help them rescue the marriage.
Steve Martin is not so good at coming with impromptu answers and he usually botches things up, but Goldie Hawn, quite experienced at playing the game, always manages to rescue the situation. She utterly enjoys playing the game and continues playing her own agenda. She even manages to get him promoted.
All the events draw attention of his high-school sweatheart who develops some new interest in him - though they face themselves once again with their individual preferences as Martin discovers that he much prefers to live in a wild and imaginary world of Goldie Hawn, which has infused him with added spice and zest for life.
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