Such a frustrating disappointment

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Breezy lightweight romp is a bit far fetched but played with a comic edge and a sense of absurdity. Must be approached in the proper spirit of whimsy or the preposterousness of the plot won't work for you. JoBeth Williams is certainly enjoying herself in the lead as the hopeful writer and wannabe sleuth Rebecca Ryan. She breezes through this with a devil may care attitude that injects the whole enterprise with glee. Tom Conti is a good foil for her with his seriousness slowly giving way to befuddlement as she involves them in one hair brained chase after another. Also along for the ride is the delightful Coral Browne as Tom's game if a bit daffy mother and Giancarlo Giannini trying to keep his cool as one indignity after another is heaped upon him. Shot on location in Europe this is a feast for the eyes as well as a fizzy affable concoction.

This movie is lame and boring. It wasn't funny, it wasn't interesting, and the acting and story were just good enough to make this movie incredibly lame. If your a fan of we or lifetime movies you'll be into this. I checked this movie out cause the cover looked really cheesy, but what i got was a little less than mediocre chick flick. The movie really is a waste of time. This movie is not for children. It contains needless violence, some profanity, casual sex scenes (though nothing is shown) and it is a big waste of time. You'll feel like a loser for watching this film. Do not watch this film. It will scar your children for life. There brains will turn into mush if they watch this film. This film is complete and utter crap. I hope it never went to DVD. The dollar I paid at the flea market was way to much for this terrible film. All copies of this film should be burned and erased from history that way mankind can forget that they made such terrible movies at one time. My retina detached shortly after viewing this film. This film represents all the evil mankind. I don't know maybe it's not that bad. On second thought you maybe should get it a try. I think it may grow on you. Wait no it won't cause it's utter crap.

I watched this movie on cable ages ago and never forgot it. It was/is delightful and engaging. It is one of those movies that you can watch over and over again. The plot line and character interactions make the perfect comedy.JoBeth Williams is delightful and one of the funniest scenes is when she goes out to have some fun in Paris. I won't elaborate more because it would be a spoiler.The ending is also wonderful with a sort of moral/life lesson being learned by the audience in regard to settling or merely existing in your life instead of actually "living."

This is a marvelous but pretty much undiscovered film from the 1980s that somehow "slipped under the radar"--getting little attention at its release. And this is a great shame, as it's a charming and funny film about a romance writer that will appeal to both men and women.JoBeth Williams plays a frustrated woman who reads a lot of romance novels--particularly those involving a character named "Rebecca Ryan". She wins a trip to go to France, but her selfish husband doesn't want to go even though it's free (what a jerk), so she goes without him. However, once there, she is hit on the head (a familiar plot device, I know) and she believes she IS Rebecca Ryan!! This Rebecca Ryan is sort of like James Bond and Jessica Fletcher combined and she insists she is on the trail of a crime. However, she soon meets the actual person who writes the Rebecca Ryan stories and HE recognizes everything she is saying as coming from the books HE wrote (yep--the author is a guy writing under a pen name and uses his mother to pose as her). He (played by Tom Conti) realizes she's a very disturbed woman, but JoBeth Williams is SO convincing as Ms. Ryan that people don't believe him and think she really is an international woman of mystery and battler of evil!!! Where the script goes from here is amazing and silly--especially because JoBeth actually finds herself tied up in a REAL international assassination plot! It is a highly amusing film that is both a "chick flick" and a lot of fun for guys in the audience as well.