Mrs. Winterbourne

Pros: sweet story, decent acting, funny moments
Cons: relationship between Bill and Connie feels rushed, unnecessary drama

Not every movie has to be the kind that dazzles its viewers. Sometimes it’s enough to have a sweet story that allows the viewer to escape fro the real world for a while and root for the unlikely circumstances of the film’s heroine. Such is ...

Pros: Makes you feel good. Shirley MacClaine sings.
Cons: silly movie with mediocore acting.

Connie (Ricky Lake) gets taken in by a guy who knocks her up when she is only 18and then he throws her out on t he street. She goes to get onto a subway, but makes a mistake and ends up on a train going to Boston. Hugh Winterbourne (Brendan Frasier) has...

Pros: all star cast, good for all family members
Cons: typical at times

Mrs. Winterbourne is such an underrated movie, I'm sure half of you reading have never even heard of it. It's very cute and it's actually a movie you can watch with your kids - which seems rare nowdays! I wouldn't recommend it for younger kids because...

Pros: If you want to dream a light romance, there you have it.
Cons: You can't think of it as a heavily philosophical picture of love and life: it is Hollywood, and this is, beautiful as it seems, still a fairy tale.

Today I woke up with this movie in my cable TV, and took a look at it. Shirley MacLaine was there, so it could be nice.

Ricky Lake, going after a dream in New York, just finds out that she is pregnant from an idiot and she has no place to go....

Pros: Romantic and Funny
Cons: None

Mrs. Winterbourne is one of my favorite movies. I wouldn't even be able to count how many times I have seen this movie.
Shirley MacLaine, Brendan Fraser and Ricki Lake star in this romantic comedy about a girl caught between love and mistaken...

Pros: Great plot. Funny and dramatic.
Cons: The fall of the events are not realistic.

Ricki Lake, Shirley MacClaine, and Brendan Frasier star in this movie. It is about a girl named Connie Doyle (Ricki Lake) who gets pregnant. Her boyfriend dumps her and she ends up in the streets with no money. She decieds to take a subway, but by...

Pros: Makes you smile. Happy type movie.
Cons: None!

Stars: Brendan Fraser, Ricki Lake, Shirley MacLaine Miguel Sandoval

Mrs. Winterbourne is a story of a young girl, named Connie Doyle. (Ricki Lake)
Grows up with no mother and her and father don’t get along. So she sets off to find her own...

Pros: GREAT story!! Great Actress/actor
Cons: not enough time to watch it as many times as I would like to!

I'm not one to watch a movie more then once, I don't really have the time. But this is one movie that I don't mind watching over and over and over. I would say I have watched it at least 20 times and I never get tired of it.

It's not just a...

Pros: A few good actors
Cons: Some of the acting is just horrible

What a laugh, Ricki Lake thinks she can really act. The only thing that kept my interest in this movie is the fact that Ricki Lake had lost so much weight and the other characters were played by, what I believe, good actors. Replace Ricki Lake with...

Pros: Romantic, sweet, and funny
Cons: - none

I loved this movie. I only just caught it on TV a few weeks ago and regretted not having seen it earlier. This tale of a young girl, being pregnant , rejected by her boyfriend and by some twist of fate ending up on a train with the rich and beautiful...

Pros: Great stars. Excellent family movie.
Cons: mediocre acting

Basically it's about a young girl (Ricki Lake), who gets herself knocked up and then kicked onto the street She goes to a subway and Mr. Winterbourne (Brenden Fraiser) says she's his wife. Mrs. Winterbourne and Connie meet, both are very pregnant. The...

Pros: Brandon Fraser is too sexy for his own good.
Cons: Not enough of Brandon Fraser for me.

I think this is just one of the most feel good, modern Cinderella stories next to When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Settle. I watch it whenever its on cable no matter what time and my husband even likes it.