Coarse, cliched and clunky, this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock. Neo-hippie lawyer Lucy Kelson (Bullock) has devoted her life to lost causes, most recently trying to save an old movie theater in her native Coney Island, N.Y. It falls to the wrecking ball despite Lucy's best efforts, and the neighborhood community center is slated to be the next sacrifice to the greed of a real-estate development monolith called the Wade Corporation. So Lucy waylays George Wade (Grant), the company's smoothly mediagenic public face, intending to sha...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
100 mins