The title might well describe anyone lured into renting this video release by the cassette's false promise of a romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock.
Filmed in 1989, six years before Bullock became a box-office draw on the basis of SPEED and WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, this really stars Jonathan Penner as ad man Morris Codman who, after receiving a message from God (George Plimpton), tries to cash in by starting a new religion. He incorporates The Preferent Church, and hires janitor-philosopher Ian Clarity (Gerald Orange) as a figurehead. The church espouses a lifestyle of conscience-free, personal selfishness, and is a big hit with amoral businesspeople. This is...
Released:
1989
Rated:
R
Length:
84 mins