Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: January 30, 1987 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
7
Negative:
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Midler and Long are great together, and the dialogue is hilarious. [22 Nov 1987, p.11]
70
The plot is madcap nonsense, and the comic aim is sometimes very broad and very low, but the belly-laugh quotient in Arthur (The In-Laws) Hiller's movie is the highest since the last Midler movie, Ruthless People. [26 Jan 1987, p.76]
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Midler has emerged as the best funny woman on the screen. As Sandy, she makes abrasiveness appealing. But her work here can't compare with what she did in Down and Out in Beverly Hills and Ruthless People. Neither can Outrageous Fortune. [30 Jan 1987, p.D1]