Scripted by actors-turned-screenwriters Andrew Lowery and Andrew Miller and directed by Robert Iscove, this romantic comedy is so shallow and brainless it's in perpetual danger of drying up and blowing away. Leads Freddie Prinze Jr. and Claire Forlani,
however, have such sweet, convincing chemistry that you're sustained by the hope that their adorable alchemy might somehow transform the movie around them. It doesn't. The saga begins with 12-year-old Ryan, a high-strung dweeb with a desperate controlling streak, fretting on a delayed plane. His
seatmate, pretty, forthright and free-spirited Jennifer (who's a couple of years older), arrives late and thoroughly unflus...
Released:
2000
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
91 mins