Star vehicle. More precisely, a bicycle built for two, and pedaled across two types of terrain, George Cukor's and Alfred Hitchcock's. To put it as dauntingly as possible: Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts, in the roles of rival reporters on a train-wreck story, are required to be Tracy and Hepburn and at the same time, or alternating times, Grant and Kelly. They come up a bit short. Nolte, for the occasion, has fluffed-up hair and smokes cigars; Roberts has legs (same length as always) and picks pockets. Among the things they lack are a Cukor and a Hitchcock. Their actual director, Charles Shyer, and his producer and co-writer, Nancy Meyers, reveal a reverence for old cinematic forms (cf. Ryan O'Neal's lecture on Lubitsch in their Irreconcilable Differences) without revealing any mastery of them. The result is really more suitable as a sitcom pilot. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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