An update of the 1925 Buster Keaton picture SEVEN CHANCES, this romantic comedy is seriously undermined by its sour tone and an unusually charmless performance by star Chris O'Donnell. Jimmie Shannon (O'Donnell) is deeply in love with his girlfriend
Anne (Renee Zellweger, looking like an unmade bed), but the thought of marriage, even to someone as perfect as Anne, gives him major cold feet. One by one his single friends succumb to the promise of wedded bliss (some, granted, having been given a good hard shove by their significant others), so
Jimmie figures he might as well bite the bullet and pop the question. Annie sees right through his half-hearted proposal and ...
Released:
1999
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
101 mins