A Secret Admirer comes out boldly into the open: a withdrawn, eccentric, dilettante floral arranger (he delivers his creations in person: "I just like to see people's faces") whose heart goes out to a sad face -- a pretty face, too, rest assured -- seen through a second-story window in the course of his nightly constitutional. The working title of the piece was Amelia and the King of Plants, a name that hints at a whole subplot that must have got left on the cutting-room floor. What remains is complete goo, though mercifully no more than ninety minutes of it. Time enough, still, for three (count 'em) pop-song montages. Mary Stuart Masterson has matured nicely in all ways but her acting, where she clings to the blushing, stammering "charms" of awkward adolescence, even while playing a dressed-for-success workaholic. Christian Slater, not moving ahead here either, had already done this movie under the head of Untamed Heart. In all essentials, that is, with the addition this time of the "essential" of a Happy Ending. Written, directed by Michael Goldenberg. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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