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What happened with this movie? What a great premise it had.

How did it miss the mark so far? My sister and I see any movie

Keanu Reeves makes without much regard for the content or what

character he plays. We have decided the problem was the budget.

All the cast and crew members must have put in their $1.50, and

that was all the money available. I just don't get it. Here was a

great mystery and scifi combination that could have been

incredibly engrossing, it could have sucked you in and kept you on

the edge of your seat during the entire running time. Instead, I

spent the whole time wondering what it was they had in mind. I

stayed for the entire length of the movie hoping it would become

what it promised to be. Finally, in the last 5 minutes, it lived up to

it's potential. Too little, too late. I want the time and money I

wasted back!!

When I saw this movie, I laughed out loud. The bedroom scene

where she is talking it her dead husband while her fiance is

attempting to make love to her is priceless. This has added the

phrase "they're my Aunt Edna's' to my lexicon of phrases when

there is a missed communication going on around me. Only real

movie fans get it but it still cracks me up. The title song, I think it

was sung by Dusty Springfield, is one of the lost classics. Maybe

you have to be a woman to understand how well it fits the movie,

Kate and Jolly are both sorry that it went so fast; that he died and

she still hasn't gotten over it; that she will marry a man who loves

her and try get on with life in the home where Jolly lived, died and,

apparently, still lives. There is no scene which misses the hilarity

mark. I had to search all over to find this movie, but I watch it from

time to time and 20 years later, I am still laughing and singing that

song. Sally Field, James Caan and Jeff Bridges, bravo!! I love it!!!

I first saw this movie on cable and was completely impressed. How did I miss this movie in the theatre? I LOVE mysteries. And this is one. It is also a comedy, drama and love story with a twist. Or two. The characters are well defined and grow. With the slight exception of Giancarlo Giannini, who is a intentionally one dimensional but beautiful to look at, just the same.

The heroine gets trapped in a mystery lover's dream scenario. She enters a contest to write a chapter for a book about her favorite detective and wins! Then bravely take the trip she wins alone because her husband thinks little of her effort or talent and does his best to stifle her joy. She feels a little guilty but tries to have a good time. She is definitely on the "if this is Tuesday, it must be Belgium" tour. While being rushed through the sites of Paris, she is robbed and hit by a car. Resulting in amnesia. When she wakes up she has become her favorite character. In Paris. On a shopping spree. Involved in an unsuspected plot to save the world.

It is fabulous to watch all the other people who are caught up in her dilemma because she really is lost but convincing they try to help but keep getting pulled in deeper. Then her husband is told she is missing. The plot thickens. There really are double agents, drug dealers, a chase scene (running), underground passages, ghost writers. No one is what or who they seem to be. And just when you think everything has been concluded, she gets kidnapped. That was the best moment. The director could have ended the movie exactly there and I would have felt complete. But wait, there's more. The game was still afoot!!

This movie was great!! It is everything you want from a movie. Starting with entertainment. Not predictable. Some real thinking and smart people doing everything right. But once the ball started rolling, it had to finish. Best of all, every one in the family could watch it. It was smart and clean. At this point I have seen it so many times since the 80's I can sing the theme song.