Milk Money

The producers of this family-values sex comedy -- in which a boy (Michael Patrick Carter) sets his widowed dad (Ed Harris) up with a hooker (Melanie Griffith) who wears her heart of gold on her sleeve -- must have thought they had a sure thing: half Sleepless in Seattle, half Pretty Woman, with a dash of Risky Business. Milk Money plays, however, like a cynically manipulative sitcom with a predictable plot and a self-consciously cute preteen hero. Harris is endearing, but the haggard Griffith poses throughout, and Carter comes off as the poor boy's Macaulay Culkin. C-