Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant.
The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.
by Caroline Westbrook |
Published on
Release Date:
01 Jan 1996
Running Time:
105 minutes
Certificate:
15
Original Title:
Mrs Winterbourne
) Ricki Lake takes on the role of a heavily pregnant white trash waitress who is mistaken for a society widow after being involved in a train wreck.
Taken in by her new adoptive family (headed by grandmother Shirley MacLaine) she discovers that her supposed dead hubby has a twin brother (Brendan Fraser) who surprise! happens to be single.
It's all a little too coincidental for comfort, and surprisingly short on laughs for a comedy, but nonetheless this is a light, well-meaning flick, improved considerably by Lake's scatty heroine. Despite having already lost 125 lbs, Ricki Lake was required to lose an additional 20 lbs before filming could begin.
Similar in plot to the Sandra Bullock vehicle While you were Sleeping (which makes for preferable viewing.)
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