Tim McCanlies' charming feature directorial debut evokes the spirit of Capra's Depression comedies and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, without the nostalgia or sentimentality of those works.
Offers a steady supply of clever lines but suffers from the patina of self-loathing common to industry lifers and the unfortunate miscasting of straight-arrow Broderick as a depressed, cynical hack.
I bought this movie strictly because JLH is my favorite actress and I'm trying to collect all her movies on dvd. She's on the front cover and recieved top billing, but she's only in it for 3 scenes if that. She was great in all her scenes as the obsessively annoying girlfriend, but the rest of the movie was very slow and was overrall just a bunch of random scenes put together that didn't really make up a story in the end. The acting wasn't the greatest either. It wasn't terrible, but could've and should've been alot better. I mean, everything's all there; Great actors, interesting enough premise, just executed very badly.