Sweet, but not cloying

Rating: 9/10 (15 March 2000)

Came across this while flipping cable channels, and, well, the channel-surfing stopped. It is a very sweet romantic film that continuously scoots along the surface of the ocean of cliches but somehow never manages to get wet. Even the ending manages to avoid that sickening cloyness that infects so many Hollywood "romances".
I freely admit that the events in the film resonate with events in my own life and that is, no doubt, part of its charm. But then I hardly expect that I'm the only person who's lived through something like this.
Highly recommended, unless you insist on your movies having explosions and formulaic endings.