Overboard (1987)

Director Garry Marshall injects a bit of class conflict into a battle-of-the-sexes set-up in the scathingly funny romantic comedy Overboard (1987). Goldie Hawn stars as a bored heiress for whom money is not an issue. When the yacht she shares with her husband is in need of some remodeling, the sassy blonde hires a brawny carpenter (Kurt Russell) to hammer some boards. The spoiled starlet gets amnesia after falling overboard, however, so the handyman convinces her that she’s actually his low-life wife. Marshall milks the premise for plenty of laughs, but it’s Hawn who delivers the goods with a gloriously gratuitous pinch of cheek.