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Natalie Portman is an A-list actress and she definitively avoided this film to slip into the B-category. Nice job, well done. And his colleague was better than expected. But who is the target audience? When I was a teen I watched Driver's License and "I knew" that film was for me. When I began to enter adulthood I watched When Harry met Sally and "I knew" that was adulthood. Yeap, you say tomaito and I say tomahto and after twelve years, you know, that cake but with the "on the side" condition, etc.. And then was this 1988 French film with Sophie Marceau where she plays a grad student going on dates and looking at his watch at all times because she needs to wake up early in the morning because grown ups need to wake up early in the morning or the world stops. Yes, I love you, but I need my thesis done so don't ask me to choose between you and my career. But Emma wants sex and not love because of what? How many doctors do you know that are not married? And his sex toy wants to be his boyfriend because of what? Oh, because he fell in love from the first time! Really? And does not him understand that he has been dumped by cute Natalie Portman after the key second sex encounter? (Remember Tulips, 1981?). This is a film I loved to watch, but is not a film my PG-13 will understand nor I want her to believe that that's adulthood. Bill Murray's macho hunting plus Sigourney Weaver's feminist "you silly boy" smile was much more unforgettable. It became a classic. Sorry, Mr. Reitman, I still watch Ghostbusters and it is as fresh as it was a full generation ago, but this latter flick made my evening but It didn't make me forget that I have to get up early tomorrow.

I was 10 years old when I saw this movie for the first time. That was back in those days before cable TV, so the norm was to show each film only once. A reprise might come next year or so. But this little movie broke a record in my country: It was first aired on a Monday evening, and everybody was talking about it at school the next morning. Then we heard that due to viewers' positive phone calls to our local TV channel, they will be airing it again on Wednesday. So everybody saw it again two days later. You have to understand what was going on in the head of us children, addicted to sports as we were at that young age, thinking in the possibility of achieving world sport stardom even if you come from some obscure town somewhere in a little known country. Then, by the end of that week, that I remember as one of my major memories from fifth grade, there was once again a TV spot, almost a minute long, this time just showing a Nadia Comaneci's routine in slow motion, she literally flying, with a triumphant music theme in the background, and the announcer went like this: "This Sunday afternoon, for the first time in the history of Paraguayan TV, and due to overwhelming viewers' request, a movie will be aired for the third time in the same week". Still to these days, 24 years later, no other movie was ever aired again three times in the same week on a free air TV channel. That says it all!