Overboard (1987): 15 Weird Facts You Didn't Know

Overboard looked like a romantic comedy about amnesia, class differences, and an unlikely love story. But behind the film's charming surface was a production born from another movie's disaster, a screenplay its own writer thought was too far-fetched to work, and a box office run that completely underestimated what the film would eventually become. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell fell in love before making the movie. The yacht had its own Hollywood history. The critics dismissed it. And decades later, the same story would be remade around the world while the original quietly became one of the most beloved comfort movies of the 1980s. These are 15 weird facts about Overboard — the kind that make one of the decade's most unlikely romantic classics feel even more remarkable once you know what was happening behind the scenes.