What a drag it is to be famous....

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 1999)

How can a director and a screenwriter take two actors of such charm (Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant) and produce such a lugubrious work? Garry Marshall made a story about a prostitute lighthearted and romantic, but these guys take an actually good premise and turn it into a two-hour mope-fest. I was uncomfortable feasting my eyes on the glorious Julia and Hugh when the message of the movie was that fame and public adoration are poisonous and ruinous to their objects. I left the theater feeling like a stalker. Too bad -- let's hope that Julia's re-teaming with Richard Gere in "Runaway Bride" goes down better.