Spoiled heiress Joanna Stayton (GOLDIE HAWN) is accustomed to the life of the idle rich with her husband, Grant Stayton III (EDWARD HERRMANN). While waiting for their yacht to be repaired in the rural hamlet of Elk Cove, Oregon, she passes the time by hiring local carpenter, Dean Proffitt (KURT RUSELL), to remodel her closet. Dean puts up with her rude and condescending attitude and produces some quality work which is dismissed by Joanna because he used oak instead of cedar, despite her not having specifically asked for this at the start. When Dean agrees to redo the closet after he gets the money for the work done she refuses to pay and they have an argument - during which he astutely notes that she is inventing things to complain about because her life is so pampered and boring (this gets overheard by the ship's crew on the intercom who applaud Dean for telling her off) - which concLater that night, as the ship sails away from the harbor, Joanna goes out on deck to retrieve a lost piece of jewelery and falls overboard. The next day the local TV news shows a story about her having been picked out of the water around midnight by a (GARBAGE COW). Joanna is suffering from amnesia and is taken to the local hospital where no one can figure out who she is. Once Grant realizes Joanna has fallen overboard, he sails back to port to get her. After seeing Joanna's mental state and her lashing out at hospital employees, Grant denies knowing her and returns to the yacht to embark on a spree of parties with younger women.ludes with her pushing him off the ship and dumping his tools in the water after him.
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
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Spoiled heiress Joanna Stayton (GOLDIE HAWN) is accustomed to the life of the idle rich with her husband, Grant Stayton III (EDWARD HERRMANN). While waiting for their yacht to be repaired in the rural hamlet of Elk Cove, Oregon, she passes the time by hiring local carpenter, Dean Proffitt (KURT RUSELL), to remodel her closet. Dean puts up with her rude and condescending attitude and produces some quality work which is dismissed by Joanna because he used oak instead of cedar, despite her not having specifically asked for this at the start. When Dean agrees to redo the closet after he gets the money for the work done she refuses to pay and they have an argument - during which he astutely notes that she is inventing things to complain about because her life is so pampered and boring (this gets overheard by the ship's crew on the intercom who applaud Dean for telling her off) - which concLater that night, as the ship sails away from the harbor, Joanna goes out on deck to retrieve a lost piece of jewelery and falls overboard. The next day the local TV news shows a story about her having been picked out of the water around midnight by a (GARBAGE COW). Joanna is suffering from amnesia and is taken to the local hospital where no one can figure out who she is. Once Grant realizes Joanna has fallen overboard, he sails back to port to get her. After seeing Joanna's mental state and her lashing out at hospital employees, Grant denies knowing her and returns to the yacht to embark on a spree of parties with younger women.ludes with her pushing him off the ship and dumping his tools in the water after him.
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