Only if you have to..

Rating: 2/10 (16 July 2001)

..or nothing else is on..or if you're a sixteen year old girl..then by all means enjoy but don't say you were not warned!
There is limited appeal in this uneasy combination of 'Flashdance', 'Valley of the Dolls', and 'Cocktail.'
If you have never seen another movie, all this might seem new to you. If you've seen any of the ones I mentioned, or have lived on this planet for longer than five months, you can see it all coming a mile away.

The plot (you should excuse the expression) is paper thin, the acting is amateurish for a high school play and the biggest complaint of all is its not bad enough to be good..its just bad enough to be bad.

I DID enjoy seeing Melanie Lynskey, who was so memorable in 'Heavenly Creatures' and she did a passable New Jersey accent. I guess you have to pay bills, but I hope she gets better opportunities in better movies before she is stuck in the second female lead forever.
I enjoyed Perabo much more in 'The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle' but part of that could be because she is not carrying the whole movie with that one. She does not have the screen presence necessary for you to even consider the possibility that you are seeing a future star. She might be a legit actress someday, but you can't tell from anything seen here. She is not helped by a dreadful script, though.