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Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Romance; With: Danny DeVito, Holly Hunter and Queen Latifah
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

In the first feature directed, as well as written, by Richard LaGravenese, we're asked to believe that Holly Hunter, as a nurse who's in the middle of divorcing her loutish cardiologist husband, would fall under the spell of a deadbeat elevator operator played by Danny DeVito. The film is like An Unmarried Woman recast as a sitcom-cute update of Marty. Hunter, swilling martinis, makes a wistful spectacle of depression and heartache, but she's too alive a performer to get boxed into LaGravenese's smugly patronizing design.


Posted Nov 13, 1998
 

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