Bittersweet comedy (nine-tenths sweet, one bitter) whose basic strategy is to have a thirty-one-year-old woman behave as if she were seven. Since she holds down a secretarial job in a very "now" Toronto art gallery, the results of this are more often embarrassing than funny. The idolatrous fixation of a waifish innocent on a worldly older woman (boss, role-model, teacher -- lover, maybe?) has better possibilities in it than mere tweeness. And Sheila McCarthy, seemingly without teeth or eyebrows, and utterly individual, deserved a chance at them. With Paule Baillargeon and Ann-Marie McDonald; written and directed by Patricia Rozema. (1987) — Duncan Shepherd
This movie is not currently in theaters.