Mrs. Winterbourne is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, and Brendan Fraser.
It is loosely based on Cornell Woolrich's novel I Married a Dead Man, which had already been filmed in Hollywood as No Man of Her Own (1950) starring Barbara Stanwyck, in Hindi as Kati Patang (1970) starring Asha Parekh, and in French as J'ai épousé une ombre (1983).
Months later, a destitute Connie gets inadvertently swept aboard a train at Grand Central Terminal.
With no ticket and no money, Connie is rescued by Hugh Winterbourne, who takes her to his private compartment.
When the train suddenly crashes, Patricia is thrown outside, leaving Connie the only one in the private compartment.
Connie was found in the Winterbourne's sleeper car wearing the wedding band, and has been mistaken for Patricia.
She also learns "the other pregnant woman on the train" (Patricia, mistaken for Connie) and Hugh both died in the crash.
When the shock of seeing the twin of the man she is claiming as her deceased husband wears off, she nervously begins her new life.
Bill and Connie are then called to help a drunk Paco, heart-broken from a recent failed romance, to his bed.
Connie returns home to find Grace has had a heart attack because of her sudden disappearance.
Connie decides to accept the situation, and agrees to marry Bill as Patricia Winterbourne.
Grace, seeing Connie's distress from afar, sends Paco after Steve as he leaves, to discover his identity.
Failing to find it, she and Bill flee the scene, not knowing that Paco sees their fight from outside the motel.
[3] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.