Frankie (Ione Skye) is an aspiring actress working in the Blue Eyes Cafe (when it is convenient for her). An insomniac, she hasn't had a solid night's sleep since she was six. Her best friend Allsion (Jennifer Aniston) is also an actress and Frankie's best friend. They are moving in five days to Los Angeles. Into the cafe for a job walks David (Mckenzie Astin) with eyes like Frank Sinatra and literary aspirations.
Frankie is (supposed to be) a dark, tortured soul, but she comes off as more of a hopeless romantic (think Winona Ryder's Ophelia from Beetlejuice). When she meets David it's love at first sight. But David has a girlfriend, Molly, a law student. Frankie has three days to get David to fall in love with her, and agree to move to L.A. with her.
Frankly, Tiffanie DeBartolo's film (which she both wrote and directed) almost made it onto my list of films to skip. It certainly does not offer much in the way of insight. But there were just enough clever moments in the otherwise entirely predictable script to save the movie. Skye and Astin are pretty good, but Jennifer Aniston, sporting a wide variety of accents, all bad, proves once again that it is better to be lucky than good.
I decided not to pan the film partially because it is a little amusing, but also because DeBartolo shows promise as a director. If she matures and brings that growth to her writing, she might make some very good films.
Frankie is (supposed to be) a dark, tortured soul, but she comes off as more of a hopeless romantic (think Winona Ryder's Ophelia from Beetlejuice). When she meets David it's love at first sight. But David has a girlfriend, Molly, a law student. Frankie has three days to get David to fall in love with her, and agree to move to L.A. with her.
Frankly, Tiffanie DeBartolo's film (which she both wrote and directed) almost made it onto my list of films to skip. It certainly does not offer much in the way of insight. But there were just enough clever moments in the otherwise entirely predictable script to save the movie. Skye and Astin are pretty good, but Jennifer Aniston, sporting a wide variety of accents, all bad, proves once again that it is better to be lucky than good.
I decided not to pan the film partially because it is a little amusing, but also because DeBartolo shows promise as a director. If she matures and brings that growth to her writing, she might make some very good films.