The blossoming romance of two single parents who must juggle his or her job crisis and his or her only child (sometimes both children at the same time) over the course of one rainy day, one busy day, one hectic day, one frantic day, one long day. (One of them is a newspaper writer of the type unique to the screen world, who never has to sit down and do any actual writing.) Michael Hoffman's direction is consistently slick and intermittently clever, and the heavy dependence on the cellular phone as a plot crutch infuses the movie with an unmistakable flavor of the times. The chemistry between Michelle Pfeiffer (the human stick figure) and George Clooney (voice like a beer drinker's belch, head waggling as if atop a jack-in-the-box spring) will not be equally apparent to everyone. Chiefly, perhaps, to the sorts of barrier-vaulting romantics who see no reason why Cupid should bypass self-regarding swellheads. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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