Great on screen and off (in the movie) sweethearts, fans adored Gwen Harrison (played by Catherine Zeta Jones) and Eddie Thomas (played by John Cusack). Who wouldn't love both eye candy couple when paired on screen?
In this film, present time they had a falling out. Gwen called it quits and it left Eddie in shambles. Eddie even admitted himself to a institution to treat his depression over their break up. Both were trying to move on from their relationship, Gwen had a new partner and Eddie is getting well in his treatments when suddenly their last movie was about to be shown to the public. Imagine it would be a public relations nightmare to have these two get back together again just to promote the movie.
Neither one would like to be seen together. Gwen's partner is so jealous she knows he would flip out. For Eddie, he is afraid he would go into a relapse and go back to being depressed. Now it is up to the PR consultant Lee Philips (played by Billy Crystal) to bring these two in front of the media for the movie review screening.
True to the genius of Lee, he was able to bring in the two to the event. The movie is a make or break for the production company so everything is on Lee's shoulders to make it as a successful one. Due to the couple's situation, Lee decided to hold the press junket aka movie screening in the middle of the desert. He hints that should everything goes south, the invited media would have a hard time publishing it and this would give him time to create damage control so to speak.
To add to his stars' problems is the film in itself. The director hasn't even sent a copy of the film to the producers and Lee so they don't know if there's even a movie to be reviewed by the press. So Lee is being hounded in 5 fronts, Gwen, Eddie, the producer, the director and the media. A very formidable task which only the great Billy Crystal can pull off.
All the bells and whistles the PR can concoct he does to make the movie preview great. Like releasing a CCTV footage that supposedly got "leaked" to the press. Good or bad publicity is publicity still so Lee takes full advantage of this.
Everything was going great when suddenly Kiki Harrison (played by Julia Roberts) came back with Gwen and met Eddie. Kiki was a plus sized sister and production assistant to Gwen when they were a couple. So Eddie was surprised that Kiki is now a sexy bombshell and he noticed how beautiful she was or she is now.
Early in the story, Eddie still had the hots for Gwen and longs for a second chance, however when Eddie began using Kiki as a bridge, something changed. Eddie began to see Kiki more and more appealing than Gwen. During the whole event, Eddie has been smitten by Kiki and the other half of the movie became exciting to watch till the end.
The movie is great thanks to the acting of its starts, but the storyline taken as flat, is also great. Its the in between details that made this movie a regular movie bottomline. It wasn't funny as we hoped it would be, except for the Billy Crystal scenes, not was romantic as we have known John Cusack's films are, not as dramatic as with other Catherine Zeta Jones movies are, and it wasn't sweet as like other Julia Roberts films would be. It's stuck in the middle for us between boring and exciting.
Even with this reaction from us, we still recommend this movie for your marathon since its an ALL STAR Cast..... This is not on Netflix so watched on Amazon Prime.
