The Rhode Island duo needs a hit to avoid looking dumb and dumber. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion . While the Woodman always shrouds his projects in secrecy, the early word has the little fellow himself playing an insurance company claims inspector who butts heads with Hunt's office efficiency expert. Steve Buscemi and Brad Renfro play the lust objects. If conventional romantic comedy is more your style, there's always the latest Julia Roberts vehicle.
Filmmakers always have Paris.
The Man Who Cried . Christina Ricci as a Russian Jewish migr turned Parisian chorus girl, Johnny Depp as the gypsy horse-handler with whom she falls madly in love, Cate Blanchett as a Russian ballerina, and John Turturro as an arrogant tenor. John Madden, who directed Oscar glutton Shakespeare in Love , picked up Captain Corelli's Mandolin after The Talented Mr. Ripley 's Anthony Minghella set it down. The literate World War II romance set on a Greek isle features Penelope Cruz as the alluring beauty and Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale as rivals in love and war. It's that other epic WW II love triangle with an idyllic island locale.