This is a refreshingly entertaining and funny film with Mark Harmon playing Taylor Worth, a confident, not cocky or obnoxious, local playboy TV Weatherman who is challenged to yet another bet by his best friend, Ned Broudy, played by Mark Blum. Taylor has apparently won every prior bet with Ned. In this bet, Taylor has to get three women to say they will marry him in three months. If Taylor wins he gets Ned's wife's prized Picasso picture, if he loses he gives up his prized cabin in the woods. Ned gets to choose the women Taylor will court. Madeleine Stowe, Lesley Ann Warren, and Maria Holvoe play the three vastly different women Taylor woos. Ned will not be beaten and will do anything to win. What ensues is hilarious. This movie has no underlying social commentary; it's simply entertainment. In my mind it succeeds as a good Saturday afternoon watch. Sit back with the popcorn and enjoy.
Review of Worth Winning
Worth Winning
(1989)
TV Weatherman takes a bet to get three women to say they will marry him
22 January 2006