She did the hard investigative work that allowed a small Los Angeles law firm to win a multimillion-dollar suit against a rich corporation. But it s even better than that, since Erin starts from ground zero, unemployed and feeling unemployable. She s not so unusual a woman in contemporary America a divorced mom with kids to raise and no special job skills. She has drive but, above all, compassion enough to give the movie substance. She s not the ideal hero, but her faults, compared to her virtues, are minor.
Religious complications add to the usual genre rivalries, mixups and mishaps.
The situation is full of potential traps, sometimes fallen into. But it s hard to get really mad at a Y2K-era movie with sincere and likable clerics as heroes. This Stuart Blumberg script is really a Jewish story, built around the comic problems of the handsome, unmarried rabbi. Jake to date their daughters. But Jake follows his own path and romances the chic blonde Anna.