Modern-day fairy tale, the moral of which is that appearance is not everything; more exactly, one Meg Ryan is not as good as any other Meg Ryan. A decrepit old wedding-crasher in a white suit and straw hat takes a turn kissing the bride, and their souls are magically swapped. One outcome of this is that Alec Baldwin (reprising his stage role) must live for a while with Sydney Walker in what has every appearance of being a May-December homosexual romance. (The writer and the director, Craig Lucas and Norman René, are the same team responsible for Longtime Companion.) All in all, a contrived, facile, and slick-talking piece of work, which in the contemporary climate can pass as clever, philosophical, and profound. The casting of the male and female leads tends to retard the movie, however, in the shallow and the superficial. It's tempting to imagine it with actors less overtly vain. (A reunion, maybe, of Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter? Or how about, from Longtime Companion, Campbell Scott and Mary-Louise Parker?) With Ned Beatty and Patty Duke. (1992) — Duncan Shepherd
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