Abandoned by her boyfriend, estranged from her family, hugely pregnant and dead broke, Connie Doyle (Ricki Lake) finds herself on a train to Boston with no ticket and no idea what to do when she gets there. Then fate steps in: There's an accident, and when Connie awakens
she finds she's been confused with the
other pregnant woman on board -- the one traveling with her eccentric and fabulously wealthy husband to meet his family for the first time. Somehow, Hollywood has managed to reinvent the hard-boiled source novel -- Cornel Woolrich's
I Married a Dead Man -- as
a soft-centered candy of a comedy, and the result is indigestible. Lake, who was so effo...
Released:
1996
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
102 mins