Wonderful character development!

Simply Perfect

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Im not really sure how this stuff gets written and made into movies. None of the situations are at all realistic (cars not starting and then starting without any explanation etc), none of the characters make any sense. None of the choices they make has any sense behind them (they seem to be governed by internal magic 8-balls), none of the consequences make any sense (characters getting locked in a shed that Hellen Keller and Stephen Hawking could escape from). At every turn there is a completely unrealistic coincidence of some sort (characters just randomly finding each other in LA, one of the largest cities in the world), that of course makes no sense.The acting is as horrible as the writing. Was Anne Archer trying to channel a stoned Marylyn Monroe? Jolie looked like she would rather be kissing freshly dug up corpses than interacting with anybody in the movie. BTW, she is not attractive at all...she looks like a stick figure somebody tried to inflate with a tire pump but only got to her lips and boobs (her boobs BTW are the only thing that makes this movie at all interesting, but just barely so), her ass looks like it hasn't graduated Jr High yet and her frame looks like it is carrying about 5 lbs of muscle.Horrible horrible movie.

Angelina Jolie completists may feel compelled to sample this minor item from her early portfolio, and it certainly beats Cyborg 2, but if it had starred anybody else it would be of little interest to audiences even just a month after it came out. Danny Aiello plays a fiftyish bachelor who, despite being a little thin on top and a little thick in the middle, is confident of his ability to attract young women. Jolie catches his eye in a coffee shop and calls him over, essentially to put his boasts to the test by having him charm her in front of his friends. The resulting awkwardness is more excruciating than funny and this is part of the problem with this movie: the funny bits mostly are not, and so then what are you left with? Jolie, as she was in many of her early roles, is quirky and winsome here, and Aiello has enough screen presence to anchor the movie, but the script gives them little to do that's genuinely interesting. The film is quite well shot with nice cityscapes around Los Angeles and gorgeous desert scenery once the pair gets on the road, but ultimately there is little here that entertains beyond the charm of the principals. I rather liked this movie, but ten minutes after it was over, I would have been hard pressed to provide specific details on what happened. Driving. There is a LOT of driving. And Jolie takes a shower in a way that is clearly intended to tease Aiello and keep him on the hook. But hey, we know she can be sexy; she became a superstar based on that talent fer cryin' out loud. Ultimately, it's neither a plot nor a character driven film. It's a mood piece and the mood is sweet, but tame and forgettable. It's okay, but approach with caution.

Great comic performances throughout, although Peter MacNicol, in a cameo role, steals the show! Early Angelina Jolie, looking stunningly beautiful, strikes the right balance of loopiness and reality. Anne Archer startles with an effervescent comic turn that will surprise her fans and delight the unfamiliar. Danny Aiello is the perfect everyman, at times innocently confident followed by sheer bafflement at the insane goings on around him. And Alfred Molina, is brilliant as Aiello's long suffering out-of-work actor sidekick who finds the perfect role in a real life drama. Independent film at its best. Don't miss it!

Many times movies that are determined to be off-the-wall wind up going splat! but this one works OK. Danny Aiello plays an ordinary Joe hanging out with his friends at a coffee shop when in walks a sexy young woman (Angelina Jolie) who may as well have a blinking neon sign around her neck saying TROUBLE! The boys put Danny up to flirting with her and amazingly, she responds. Obviously she wants something from this guy and that something is a ride to her home, a trailer out in the desert.When they get there, things start to get weird. Mom (Anne Archer) is a breathy-voiced version of a 50's sitcom mother, and there's this incongruous, menacing biker (Michael Biehn) at the trailer with her. Who is this guy, a boyfriend? Houseguest? Husband? If he knows what's good for him, Danny should say goodbye and step on the gas, but he hangs around too long and gets involved with all sorts of madness and freaky characters.Some people will reject this film out of hand as being too stupid or weird and others will say it doesn't go far enough. A group in the middle will find it nicely out of the ordinary and modestly entertaining. Aiello is rather subdued as befits a befuddled guy who's into something way over his head and Jolie is verrry sexy.