Overboard

Overboard (1987)

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Annie: Oh, and give my regards to Schwartzman and Heinliken.

Annie: You... and the closet.
Dean Proffitt: That's right. This is me and I'm standing in front of the closet.
Annie: Something's familiar.
Dean Proffitt: Yeah, well... that's 'cause we used to do it in the closet.
Annie: Oh stop with the sex stories.

Capt. Karl: What're you doing?
Annie: I'm turning the boat around.
Capt. Karl: Why?
Annie: I'm going home.
Capt. Karl: You're turning that wheel around too fast.

Joanna: What's my name?
Dean Proffitt: Mrs. Annie Proffitt.
Joanna: Well what's my maiden name?
Dean Proffitt: Annie Goolaheey.
Joanna: Annie goolahey... Where in God's name did I grow up, Dogpatch?
Dean Proffitt: No, not there honey over in Goober, Idaho but it's a nuclear waste dump.

Travis Proffitt: Are we gonna trade her in for a new mom?
Dean Proffitt: Not if we don't blow it.

Joanna: You know forks were invented so that man could at least make a pretense of separating himself from the apes.
Dean Proffitt: So were thumbs.
Joanna: What did you say?
Dean Proffitt: Nothing. It was... my stomach.
Joanna: Well try to control your bodily noises so I can hear myself think.

Grant Stayton: We're at sea, and I'm a GOD at sea.

Travis Proffitt: It's not us, Dad, it's Roy.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: I'm not a bitch. andrew. Are you going to bring me my lemon or do I have to squeeze it from my hat?

Grant Stayton: Mrs. Stayton has decided to leave me. Let's celebrate!

Joanna: Captain Karl?
Capt. Karl: Yes madam?
Joanna: We've never really had time to talk.
Capt. Karl: No, we haven't.
Joanna: Well, there's no time now.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Try to understand, Grant, I don't love you anymore.
Grant Stayton: What's love got to do with marriage?

Annie: I don't belong here, I feel it, don't you think I feel it. I can't do any of these vile things and I wouldn't want to. Oh, my life is like death. My children are the spawn of hell, and you're the devil. Oh God.
Dean Proffitt: But baby, we like you.

Annie: Oh, a washing machine! But Dean its so expensive.
Dean Proffitt: No, shit.

Annie: Hey mister, what was I doing out in the ocean?
Dean Proffitt: That's something you like to do, go fishing for oysters at night.
Annie: Oysters in a cold ocean at night, doesn't sound like me.

Dr. Norman Korman: You're overwrought, Grant. I want you to take a Valium. Here, take one of mine.

Doctor at Hospital: Look, if it were up to us, we would be glad to give her to you, but she's right we are gonna need some verification.

Billy Pratt: Back in the day he was known as Mean Dean Proffitt and me I was Bad Billy Pratt.

Travis Proffitt: Are you sure this is gonna work?
Charlie: My ideas always work. I'm gifted.
Travis Proffitt: I loved it when you glued Joey to the toilet seat.

Dean Proffitt: This one's flat, give me another one Billy.
Billy Pratt: I only got six.
Dean Proffitt: Well, I guess we better send the ol' ball and chain out to buy us more.

Continuity mistake: After Dean discovers Joanna on the couch, her face covered in calamine lotion, he picks her up and carries her into the bedroom. As he sets her on the bed the viewer can see her face is free from any "spots" and/or lotion.

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Trivia: Director Garry Marshall appears in the film as the drummer in the band that's playing at the Fish Bowl, when Annie is looking for Dean.

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Question: When Dean and Annie are at the restaurant/bar, they go outside and with plastic wine type glasses Dean pours some champagne in their glasses. When Annie picks up her glass, the bottom comes off. She says, Oh I lost my bottom! Was that in the script or was it a blooper? I've always felt it was a blooper and if it was Annie covered it so well. Thanks.

Answer: Goldie Hawn mentioned in an interview that it was a blooper. She explained that she and Kurt Russell are so comfortable with one another that it wasn't really like acting, and she reacted naturally.

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