HouseSitter is a 1992 romantic comedy directed by Frank Oz, written by Mark Stein and starring Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany. The premise involves a woman with con-artist tendencies who worms her way into the life of a reserved architect by claiming to be his wife.
Newton Davis (Steve Martin) is a struggling architect. After building his dream house for himself and his longtime girlfriend Becky (Dana Delany), he is crushed when she re...
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HouseSitter is a 1992 romantic comedy directed by Frank Oz, written by Mark Stein and starring Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn and Dana Delany. The premise involves a woman with con-artist tendencies who worms her way into the life of a reserved architect by claiming to be his wife.
Newton Davis (Steve Martin) is a struggling architect. After building his dream house for himself and his longtime girlfriend Becky (Dana Delany), he is crushed when she refuses to marry him. He is unable to bring himself to live in the house, and leaves it abandoned and with a debt he cannot afford.
Some time later, Newton meets a waitress named Gwen Phillips (Goldie Hawn) at a Hungarian restaurant. Believing that she cannot speak English, he spills out his sob story about Becky and the abandoned house. After the restaurant closes, Newton learns that she merely pretended to be Hungarian. They spend some time talking and end up spending the night together.
The next morning, Gwen finds that Newton has left in the...
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