I'm afraid not.

Rating: Null/10 (17 February 2000)

Can I please say, without contravening the IMDb guidelines, that this was a big, big disappointment, especially as the emotional response the film had generated had promised great things. For about two thirds of its length it works well enough as a rather obvious comedy, but the complacency of the acting, the caricaturing of its female characters, the diffident direction that never masters the hardly original script all disappoint. This sort of thing has been done with far more perceptively, and with far less pretension by the likes of Hitchcock, Sirk, Lynch or Burton (never mind the extraordinary RUSHMORE). The next time you've got an astonishing, life-affirming (that's a laugh! Facing up to adult problems too difficult?!), once in a lifetime film, make sure you do.