Reviews

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.

The biggest surprise in this movie was the performance of Daryl Hannah. Rather than playing the stereotypical ditzy blonde roles that she usually does she plays a street-smart, intelligent, world-weary character. She doesn't have a huge role but she does a great job portraying Lois Harlan as a woman tired of, although used to, covering up for her boss' indiscretions.