I believe that the actors did a marvelous job. It is always a pleasure to watch Sean Penn or Kevin Spacey work. The producers did an excellent job of attracting top-rate actors to this film. Meg Ryan did such a good job playing against type that I had to check the credits to make sure it was her.
However, the dialogue in this movie -- this exploration of semantics -- has all the characters speaking the same and using vocabulary that they wouldn't use. The character of Donna, a teenage vagabond, has a philosophical conversation with Eddie at the end of the movie which I doubt she would be interested in having and would, in any case, not be using the vocabulary she was using.
However, the dialogue in this movie -- this exploration of semantics -- has all the characters speaking the same and using vocabulary that they wouldn't use. The character of Donna, a teenage vagabond, has a philosophical conversation with Eddie at the end of the movie which I doubt she would be interested in having and would, in any case, not be using the vocabulary she was using.