Favorite Goldie Hawn Movie

Foul Play with Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, and Dudley Moore. Don't forget the great opening titles with Barry Manilow vocals.

You left out both Foul Play and Seems Like Old Times for garbage like The Banger Sisters and Snatched? What the fuck is wrong with you? That said-Foul Play, easily.

1. Seems Like Old Times 2. Foul Play 3. Protocol 4. Wildcats 5. Death Becomes Her

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You forgot "Swing Shift."

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Private Benjamin. As she got older, she just did that weird upper lip tuck smile as she strive to be Forever 21.

First of all, she's not underrated and, second of all R7-it's not the formatting-it's the choices.

Definitely Foul Play.

Though Seems Like Old Times also has its moments.

[quote] You left out both Foul Play and Seems Like Old Times for garbage like The Banger Sisters and Snatched? What the fuck is wrong with you?

Exactly. Even if Kurt Russell was still underage at the time, I would take [italic]The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band[/italic] over the latter two, and she's barely in it!

Seems Like Old Times all day long.

Swing Shift was good mostly because of Christine Lahti.

I breathe all day, I drink plenty of water!

Protocol has that great Buck Henry screenplay.

and the late Solid Gold dancer who was gay - Tony something - he was Portuguese

The Girl from Petrovka is a masterpiece.

Deceived was a good movie....and a nice dramatic turn for Goldie.

What a dismal list. That reflects on Goldie , not on the OP...

The goddamn list was meant to reflect the span of her career not a fucking Rotten Tomatoes Top Ten you stupid fucking cunts!! Where’s my Prozac?

Private Benjamin and Shampoo

She wasn't in "The Out-of-Towners." That was Sandy Dennis.

She was in the 1999 remake with Steve Martin and John Cleese, R27.

I LOVED her in Foul Play! Hysterical movie I still show to students

Yeah, why is "Foul Play" missing?

We also like that Disney musical where she diddles an underage boy. I mean they're west of the wide MO so anything could happen and often did.

She is magnificent and magnetic

Butterflies are Free is great. The scene where Eileen Heckart offers her an apple and she says "this reminds me of something" is just a pure comic gold moment.

[quote]r25 The goddamn list was meant to reflect the span of her career not a fucking Rotten Tomatoes Top Ten you stupid fucking cunts!! Where’s my Prozac? — OP

Why isn't that Woody Allen musical in the poll?

I wouldn't vote for it, but she did make it.

It's not there.

Yet another vote for Butterflies Are Free.

Private Benjamin, absolutely

How could you leave out The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox?

Another vote for Foul Play - I guess OP is too young to remember it.

Seems Like Old Times and Foul Play are better than most of that list.

I absolutely love her in Housesitter, the movie is okay, but she is hilarious! Her dance during the aerobics class is brilliant!

Another vote for Seems Like Old Times

My favorite Goldie flicks are "Dollars" (1971) and "Foul Play" (1978). I also liked "Private Benjamin"

Overboard's just the obvious humor of a cheap sitcom. I have no idea how it could've thrilled anyone. "Benjamin," "Death" and Housesitter are my favorite of those listed.

Death Becomes Her is my favorite. It's delicious camp.

I kinda didn't hate The Out of Towners remake. She and Steve Martin had a good chemistry and there were some funny bits.

Housesitter is another fun one. It's one of those movies where, if it's on TV, I have to sit down and watch it. It's very likable.

Theres a Girl in My Soup - as a twelve year old I liked her in the sitcom Good Morning World -

I liked her best in "Butterflies Are Free." I thought she was perfect in that.

Another vote for Fouls Plag

I chose Private Benjamin - Judy Benjamin - but Housesitter is really good too!

Nobody thought Foul Play was very good when it was released. You guys just watched on Showtime when you were kids. It's not that good.

Overboard- if you have a baby, you won't be the baby anymore.

Barbara Barrie for president.

I wish she had been nominated for Supporting for “Everybody Says I Love You”. That was the same year as “First Wives Club”. She had a great year that year.

Foul Play is hilariously entertaining - to each his own

This isn’t the army I signed up for. There must be a mistake.

Overboard. But jacking off to the hot closet maker.

Well, since you apparently speak for everyone, R59, what does America think of Christina Ricci?

Dollars kicks all kinds of ass.

Hot closet maker? What gay man doesn't know Kurt Russell?

It was really just a supporting part, but she looked adorable in Shampoo

I'm glad they're having fun, but this doesn't help eradicate homophobia in sports at all. It certainly doesn't set a good example. His exit, comparable to Michael' Sam's, only reinforces the homophobes' contention that gay men in sports should remain closeted. And that transitions to real life. If men should stay closeted in sports, they should do so in real life as well.

I don’t recall that Goldie film, r72. Was it Wildcats?

I adore the banger sisters! How dare you haters!

I have "The First Wives Club" signed by her. When I told her how much I loved that character, she giggled and wrote Elise is me!

Honestly, all of them - except Wildcats, Overboard, and Bird on a Wire - they weren't her fault though, just shitty movies.

Swing Shift. You could feel the heat between Goldie and Kurt.

I actually always liked Bird on a Wire lmao.

And I love Deceived.

What about "Butterflies Are Free?" I thought she was perfect in that.

Swing Shift. You get an (accidental) peak at Ed Harris' cock. Even TCM left that in when they showed the film a few years ago.

Overboard These gnats keep landing on my wet nail polish. I guess I'm supposed to walk around with their little corpses stuck to my fingers, is that it?... It's easy for you to say. You don't have to sit out here in the brine with your perm frizzing to oblivion. I look like a bushman.

"Butterflies Are Free" with gorgeous Edward Albert and Academy Award-winner Eileen Heckart.

The thing that's surprising about her is that she started out on Laugh-In as a dumb blonde ditz but she was really a very good comedian. Foul Play was a hysterically funny movie, but she did her best acting in Private Benjamin.

Sadly, I've seen her around Santa Monica more than once with Kurt (although I think she moved away in the last few years), and her skin was brutally sun-damaged. I think she just stopped giving a fuck once her acting days were over and spent all her time in the sun. So good for her.

I watched Deceived tonight and was really impressed by Goldie. First of all, she looked fabulous. But she also minimized the giggling and her usual tics to deliver a strong, straight dramatic performance.

I love Cactus Flower. I wish Ingrid Bergman had done more comedies.

Private Benjamin was the only movie of hers I ever liked.

Another vote for Foul Play.

Overboard. My older sister owned that VHS and we watched it a million times when I was a kid. At one point I could quote half the damn movie.

She's really good. It's easy to underrate or overlook her, because she looks like Baby Jane Hudson now. I'm am too young to have seen Foul Play, but Bird on A Wire is odious and homophobic.

Goldie is delightful and surprising and deeply talented. She absolutely can do drama as surely as she has some bad habits that she sometimes relies on. (as does Streep, Keaton, Sally Field, Fonda, Lange & Maggie Smith) Hawn should be given some LifeTime Achievement Awards long ago. Hear me SAG, and GG's and Academy? Have another look at her work. Goldie Hawn doesn't do bad performance.

She's probably one of the best comic and versatile actresses in film history. Just because she makes popular mainstream movies doesn't mean her talent is cheap.❤️🌹🎈🌼

Deceived was a bomb. I seem to recall a scene where she was being chased by the killer husband and it was unintentionally funny.

I love Butterflies are Free and Protocol and Seems Like Old Times - none of which are on your substandard list.

shame shame everyone DOESN'T know your name

I would love to see Foul Play again, but it’s not streaming anywhere that I can find. I’d like to see Deceived again too, but haven’t seen that anywhere, either.

Foul Play and Protocol before any of the choices on the list.

“She’d of”, OP? Really?

LOL at R97 oh,dear-ing a two year old thread

Deceived was released a few years ago on Blu-Ray and DVD by Kino Lorber. I bought the Blu-Ray recently, although apparently it's out of print already.

It's odd that Foul Play is not on Blu-Ray. Hopefully, the Paramount Presents line will issue it on Blu-Ray and it will also go to streaming. So many of Goldie's films are not on Blu-Ray: Foul Play, Private Benjamin, Protocol.

Thankfully, Wildcats, another fave of mine, is coming on Blu in May by Shout.

I saw Criss Cross at the theater- not good, doesn't establish a tone, unfocused, weird script.

OP, please look up the word "elusive" in a dictionary.*

Things here are difficult enough without your making up definitions for common English words.

*A dictionary is a big book on website that tells you what words mean.

I've posted nice things about Goldie Hawn's talents. She could do Melissa Leo parts or would have been great in The Wife, for instance. Better than Close. Or even Violet in August Osage County. Seriously. But she wants to play the kooky still semi sexy mother. Of Monique it turns out. Foreshadowing. Some parts she doesn't want, many more they don't want her for. I don't think Goldie's current talents are as flexible as her body. She has done excellent work. Not all the movies are good, but if people tune in, they stay for the Goldie. She's been so good as not to be noticed enough. Diane Keaton hasn't given an original line reading, expression or COSTUME in 30 years. Yet, she is still occasionally hired. In a lead role. Hawn wouldn't transition to older parts because she was getting laid AND was afraid to become old and ugly. She owns a mirror, apparently.

Give her some lifetime achievement stuff. She doesn't like to shower too often anyway. Make a special event of it.

R103 But it's also what the fans want and expect. Go see a Goldie Hawn movie and you know exactly what you're going to get.

Same reason Diana Ross sings Supremes classics at her concerts. She can't risk disappointing her fan base.

Some stars are trapped this way.

Goldie needs to pull an Ellen Burstyn in Requiem. She’d be guaranteed another Oscar if Jada would shut up for two minutes.

I get what your saying, but it's not the same thing really. A singer sells tickets and her fans expects to hear her old hits.

But an actress who hasn't had a hit movie in 25 years can go for broke. Try anything. Goldie could have played Amy Adams mother in Sharp Objects too. Tons of things she would be good at. As good as Patricia Clarkson? Yes. Never mind all the platforms available to her. Yes, like Glenn Close in Hillbilly Elegy or Meryl in The Prom, she can get slammed for it. But she can try whatever they'll hire you for. IF she wants to work. I doubt that she does. Even the great supporting actress performances are forgotten in a day since COVID. Talent doesn't go away with it can become less fluid and accessable. How did Ellen Burstyn not get nominated for that dead baby movie? She was TOP of her craft- phenomenal every moment she was on screen and memorable later. The best performance by an actress I've seen this year. It was praised too.

Truth is that people aren't much interested in what older actresses do anymore. That's a bit too bad. Because Streep and Glenn Close are not the best of who's out there.

(we see Goldie and Kurt and some of their kids all the time where I live - she's doing fine:)

Actually, a concert singer like Diana Ross is in a better position to break out of the straitjacket: She could probably fund a breakout concert tour herself. Even an album.

But a movie is big money. So there has to be big money out there willing to bet Goldie can fill the house playing against type. Not saying it's impossible, simply that it's not all up to what Goldie wants to do.

What decade are you posting from R107?

R107 You post a remark like that in a Goldie Hawn thread?

Goldie gave her best performance in Swing Shift. The original Director's cut, NOT the one released in movie theatres. She really fucked herself up by playing the Producer card and insisting they re-edit her character to soften her so her fans would find her character more likable.

Somebody had posted a link to the Director's cut on DL not too long ago.

I rewatched Private Benjamin a couple of weeks ago on HBO Max. It’s such a great movie, and Goldie is just perfect in it. Eileen Brennan, too.

But I still want to see Foul Play!

She was the Producer of Private Benjamin. The first woman to do so. (Produce her own movie.)

^ ridiculously untrue. Geez. Ever hear of Mary Pickford?

Seems Like Old Times...always.

She was Oscar nomination worthy in First Wives Club. It's a pretty genius and very funny performance. Not just funny faces - she's made something out of not much.

That's far from her best work though. I think she knows that she is good. Does the audience or her talent limit her? Either way - her work holds up. She could have played the mother in that Aronofsky film. Where did that get Michelle Pfeiffer? Goldie is content I think. She doesn't get offered much that's great and she doesn't feel like bombing. The Amy Schumer movie was not good. But on brand. Didn't hurt her.

Streep does film after film that no one watches, Glenn Close is so dour and relentless that people cease to care if she's any good. And she's quite good. Goldie would have been great in that Jane and Lily Netflix series. But she doesn't want to do a series. She's naturally comedic, but she likes to make something out of her scenes. Hawn is built for movies.

She would have been better than Streep in Mamma Mia. Seriously. But they're both too old. Hawn would have been fantastic in the role that Julianne Moore won her undeserved Oscar for. Go ask Alice? Alice? I can't remember.

Light up Goldie. Kurt isn't going to massage parlors anymore.

R116 I agree about FWC. That was a great year for her - she was wonderful in Everyone Says I love You. That was a bit of a departure and yet it was a very “effortless” performance. And just completely lovely and charming. I think she does have more range than people think and could have taken on more “adult” roles if she had wanted to.

Someone very early in the thread that “tucked lip” smile she’s been doing since the 80s. I’ve never known how to describe it but it is true and it is an annoying tic. I think it’s to make her (already surgeried) jaw look wider.

My favorite Goldie Hawn movie was the one where the director had the camera take a tight shot off her rear end.

No R118, that's your favorite Glenn Close movie. Always showing off her ASS.

There;s a Girl in My Soup with Peter Sellers - saw it in the local theater when i was in high school

Maybe I missed, but has anyone mentioned The Sugarland Express? One of Goldie's best performance in one of Spielberg's best, (and almost never mentioned) movies.

I love her, I think she is a great talent and a very natural actor. I think she is happy and no longer interested much in making movies. She has been doing that mind up thing forever, bringing meditation to schools. I think her family is tight knit and she loves hanging with them. Do your thing, Goldie!

She really wanted to be Roxie in Chicago. I can't remember why that didn't happen.

R123 because preproduction drug on until she was ancient for the role. It started in 1991-93, when she was prime for it. Then it languished and she was too old.

I remember there was a picture of Madonna and Goldie having dinner. I think this was the mid-'90s. I believe they were discussing the possibility of doing Chicago.