This overlooked 80s action/adventure comedy is highly overlooked and hardly anyone has ever heard of it. It isn't the best thing ever, you'll find better movies out there, especially from the 80s. But overall, I liked this movie alright. I really loved Bette Midler and Shelley Long as the leads. I wouldn't have liked it as much if they weren't the ones starring. They both just have this great energy about them that makes the movie work most of the time. There are some scenes that are dull and even Midler and Long can't save it, but luckily those come far and few in between. The comedy works because Midler and Long are always just so funny in all of their movies, they both are just natural comedians. The acting works, the humor is there the majority of the time, and the action is so so, the action wasn't really the focus of the movie for me. The focus for me was seeing these two women go on this funny adventure. One of the lines in the film towards the end that had me falling over laughing was when Bette says "I'll never date a man again, getting laid just isn't worth it!" Overall, it's an average film that isn't worth unending praise but it's fairly enjoyable and like I've stated, that's due to the lead actresses performances. 7/10 for Outreagous Fortune.

This is a cheesy and also a very 1980s film made by Touchstone Films (The Disney spin off) which made films with more mature themes that included risqué scenes and strong language.Bette Midler was signed to a multi film deal with Touchstone and made several films for them. Here she plays a brassy loud mouth opposite Shelly Long's more snooty and posh character. Both acting wannabees who attend the same drama class run by a strict Russian acting coach.Both are having an affair with a school teacher (Peter Coyote) who later dies in an explosion and in the morgue the mismatched couple meet and realise that they both have been sleeping with the same man and shockingly he is not dead as the corpse here is not as well endowed as Coyote was.The rest of the film is a caper as they are chased by some mysterious men, the dead schoolteacher is alive somewhere, has something to hide and not quiet the person they thought he was.The rest of the film is a caper film as they go looking for Coyote and ends up in the New Mexico desert with George Carlin as a faux native American.The film has aged and although what might had looked fun and entertaining in the late 1980s, it looks rather kitsch now and the plotting is loose and rather silly. Even the direction looks bad in places, such as the airport chase sequence and you have Robert Prosky turning up twice as different looking people but it certainly did not fool me.Some of the stunt double work looks poorly executed and the rock jumping scene at the end is over the top. Still Midler and Long make a good pair and push this silly film along.

Two completely different dames fall for the same guy. Bette Midler and Shelly Long make a wonderful dynamic duo.The problem with the film is that once the total plot is revealed, the movie goes downhill in quality and becomes one with full chase scenes.The quality here is that these totally different women could possibly bond together. Of course, given the situation that confronts them, bonding would be a way of survival.Robert Prosky was quite funny as the acting teacher, who is really a KGB agent. Peter Coyote has his moments as the false elementary schoolteacher up to his neck in espionage as a double agent.Fun, but then it becomes increasingly inane.

This film is a pretty good example of turning the "buddy" movie into a film about two women who discover a common friendship. Shelley Long is a woman who has spent years studying for a stage acting career. As pointed out in another review on this thread, her character her is like "Diane Chambers" in CHEERS, except that Long is not lording her superior education over everyone. She does make one exception. She is trying to get into a course led by one of the great actors of this generation (Robert Prosky, in a clever role - he uses several accents), who is a Russian stage star - a "Stanislavsky" type. Prosky is quite selective about who comes in. He chooses Long because of her impressive resume. But he also allows in Bette Midler, who is ... well a hooker.Bette wants to better herself, and she'd like to be an actress. But she doesn't have the background or the money (Long has to borrow it from her parents). She gets in (it is more than hinted she sold some of her wares to Prosky). He looks amused as he decides to include her in the course.He is an intensive acting genius, and we see him demonstrate how to be realistic in many details (such as dying on stage). He is also insisting that they all take good notes, but leave their notebooks with him to be returned the following week. A hard taskmaster, he probably does know much about acting.In the meantime both Long and Midler meet Peter Coyote, and he is dating both without knowing of each other's connection. This is good, as Long and Midler dislike each other (Long looking down on this pretentious hooker, Midler hating this overbearing overachiever). Then, one day, Long is accompanying Coyote out for dinner. He enters a shop, and it suddenly explodes. Long (in deep mourning) goes to the morgue. Shortly Midler shows up, and after a brief screaming fit between them, they discover that the corpse simply can't be Coyote - it's lacking a certain piece of evidence that it is.Midler and Long decide to join forces to find out what happened to Coyote. They can't find any assistance from the police (who have an open and shut accidental death). But soon they are being pursued by Federal agents led by John Schuck. They manage to shake him off, and slowly follow the few clues they find to realize they have to cross the country to follow their lover...and to force him to choose between them.Eventually they do find Coyote, only to find another less pleasant side to him. And they find that half the world seems to be pursuing them as well.The film has great moments in it, such as Long using Prosky's training to fool some people, and Long and Midler playing Eastern Europeans trying to board a plane (the right plane) at an airport. Then there is George Carlin, who plays an American Indian with the attitudes of...well George Carlin, God bless him. The film is also interesting as Long and Midler, once their cooperation grows and they find what Coyote is like, discover that they really like each other more than they thought. Look at several scenes after the middle of the film where the ladies start helping each other with grooming tips. I suggest that this film, with THELMA AND LOUIS, finally cemented the idea that a "buddy" film did not need two men to be the "buddies". And both films showed that such lady "buddy" films could be great entertainment.