Housesitter (1992)

This is a charming, light, sweet screwball comedy, with an excellent ensemble cast all wonderful in their roles. Goldie Hawn beautifully plays a charming, off-beat con artist, whose pathological lying and skewed take on reality unwittingly lead her to bring about genuine love and kindness. Along the way, she reunites a family; sheds light on the old flame of her "victim" Steve Martin (exposing the motivations of the woman who broke his heart); and creates two new families proving that, in the movies at least, you may be able to make a silk purse from a sow's ear.Both Hawn and Martin excel in their roles and they work really well together. Hawn's kooky and lovable small con-artist is perfect against Martin's straight laced conservative architect and the strange double life they have to lead, due to their constant lies, makes for an entertaining story. They are ably supported by a great cast of character actors and the character combinations make for some great scenes.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

This movie from 1992 is very lightweight but enjoyable. Mainly for the two main characters, played by Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. Each of them are so likable, and together it just doubles the enjoyment. Martin has been silver-haired for so long, when we sere them in this movie we take it for granted he is an older man to Hawn's younger woman. In fact, both of them were born in 1945, and both were around 45 or 46 here during filming.Steve Martin is associate architect Newton Davis, itching to make it big but mired in a large firm. One fateful evening after a function, he finds out that the "Hungarian" waitress is really an American. He is attracted to her, they go outside, it begins to rain, he ends up at her spartan apartment above the restaurant, he spends the night. Goldie Hawn is the waitress, Gwen Phillips. When she wakes up the next morning she is surprised to find Newton gone. She doesn't know how to contact him, but has saved a napkin he used to draw a sketch of a house he designed and built in his small home town.When she gets thrown out of her apartment, she does what a very enterprising person might, she takes a bus to the small town and uses the sketch on the napkin to find the house. Vacant, she moves in, starts furnishing the place, and tells the local that she is Mrs Davis, his wife. Even Newton's parents! She becomes the unauthorized "house sitter."All this sets the stage for the comedy that ensues. Martin and Hawn are perfect together, they make a good comedic team.

With lots of humor delivered in a nice style and no use of low situations or bad jokes at all, "HouseSitter" is a romantic comedy that plays with the conventions of marriage even though in this case the characters are not married. The situation con-artist Gwen (Goldie Hawn) puts the architect Newton (Steve Martin) is this: she moves into his house after a brief meeting, a simple casual date. She followed an drawing he made of a house he built in order to attract the woman of his dreams, Becky (Dana Delany) who turned his offer of marriage. When she finds out this house is notoriously known among the neighbors who all are familiar with Newton's situation Gwen has only of choice of saying why she's there: they're now married. But when he finds out about this "marriage" and the things she bought for this big empty house, problems and unusual things will happen in his life and for delight of the audiences a huge surprise awaits him in his eternal conquest of Becky."HouseSitter" comes to show that marriage might be an solution to all of people's problems but they really must know what to do and when to do. It also proved that the sanctity of the thing isn't that important (if there is one, it's status plainly), in fact, it seems that marriage is about having a big house, smile at your relatives and neighbors, and show a perfect life (which doesn't exist). And the funniest thing was the way Newton end up being helped by Gwen to make his moves on Becky, and even to have an promotion at his work, and that made me wonder a little. Does really being married is so necessary to sustain a privileged position in a company? First we had an underrated architect, overlooked by his boss and colleagues, then Gwen shows up and things work alright for him. When say that I'm thinking in terms of task, job, sometimes personal. I know that such thing can happen in terms of letting people go, when there's budget cuts the priority is to fire the unmarried first but in this movie this whole thing with the promotion wasn't that great. I don't know but sometimes the movie goes for a little absurd routes or easy way out's that doesn't necessarily makes it like a genuine comedy. But it touches some greatness because we have as leading actors two extraordinary first rate comedians. Martin and Hawn have a precise and great chemistry together (repeated in "The Out-of-Towners"), they're very funny and the plot helps them in such thing. However, it took some real time to really become interesting, the first half hour wasn't attractively enough to be hilarious or just simply funny, but when the story moves forward with Gwen scams and allegedly stories of how she and Newton met then the movie gets to the point and you can have some laughs. We can all be thankful for some hugely funny memorable moments like Gwen's brief dancing lessons or Newton's methods of deceiving his boss during the wedding. All in all it's a very good movie, kind of silly, unpretentious and easy to follow. 9/10

The genre of romantic comedy is one that has long since settled into a rut that is comfortable for faithful viewers and film-makers alike... the symbiosis of the former group making it worthwhile for the latter to spend millions is thus kept intact, leaving us with only one place to expect anything fresh, any spark of originality from, as far as these films go: The overall and specific ideas behind individual ones. I can't think of another movie that has the same as this one. The plot is interesting and develops nicely throughout, with genuine surprises along the way. This is sporadically funny, although several occurrences are downright hilarious. The writing varies, and a lot of the material, and that goes for jokes, gags and the script in general, come off as if they were mainly going for just exactly being above the minimum required. "Passable". The caricatures that inhabit this are paper-thin stereotypes that keep playing the one note they've been provided, until(and after) their poor, punished instruments break. The acting is fine, but every single famous person in the cast has done better elsewhere. There's no violence, mild sensuality, and language is reasonable in both amount and tone. I recommend this to the biggest fans of Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. 6/10