In the original Overboard, Kurt Russell’s blue-collar Dean finds Goldie Hawn’s amnesiac Joanna and puts her to work as his “wife.”
The new version of Overboard switches things up by making Eugenio Derbez’s Leonardo the one who has lived a life of luxury and sees Anna Faris’ Kate play the trickster by making him work like he has never worked before.
Though the fundamental tentpoles of the story appear intact, Eva Longoria seems to think that this version of the story makes far more sense in a modern context by tracking the arc of a rich and pompous man as he learns the value of work and love.