Mrs. Winterbourne Movie Review 1996

Pregnant loser Connie Doyle (Lake) is whisked into the lap of luxury when she's assumed to be the widowed Patricia Winterbourne after a train wreck. The grieving family (who had never met the bride) take her in and accept her and her baby as part of the household. Since her life is now going well, Connie decides to keep her true identity a secret while she falls for faux-brother-in-law Bill (Fraser). MacLaine is brilliant as the spirited matriarch of the family. Retooled as a comedy, the story is actually based on the noirish novel "I Married a Dead Man" by Cornell Woolrich and a remake of the equally dark "No Man of Her Own" from 1950.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 106 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Comedy, Cinderella Stories, Not-So-True Identity, Moms, Role Reversal, Books to Film: Cornell Woolrich, Rags to Riches, Trains, Wedding Bells, Blackmail

Screenplay

Phoef Sutton, Lisa-Marie Rodano

Cast

Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser, Shirley MacLaine, Miguel (Michael) Sandoval, Loren Dean, Susan Haskell, Paula Prentiss

Cinematography

Alex Nepomniaschy

Director

Richard Benjamin

Music

Patrick Doyle

Producer

Dale Pollock, Patrick Palmer, Tri-Star Pictures