Synopsis
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
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Cast
- Hugh GrantMichael Felgate
- James CaanFrank Vitale
- Jeanne TripplehornGina Vitale
- Burt YoungVito Graziosi
- James FoxPhilip Cromwell
- Joe ViterelliVinnie D'Agostino
- Gerry BeckerFBI Agent Bob Connell
- Maddie CormanCarol the Photographer
- Tony DarrowAngel
- Paul LazarRitchie Vitale
Recommendations
- 75
Boston Globe
It brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision. - 75
New York Post
An enjoyable minor-league lark. But another "Notting Hill?" Fuhgeddaboutit. - 70
Time
Director Kelly Makin has a gift for casually tossed-off farce. - 60
Chicago Reader
Many of the gags rely on the incongruity of Grant's nervous, cultured character posing as an Italian-American stereotype, but they're subverted by his earnest relationship with his fiancee, whose affection hardly seems worth the trouble. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
As insulting as taking the queen to the Olive Garden. - 50
Los Angeles Times
With preposterously convoluted plot twists, not even Grant is enough to make us smile all the way through the end. - 50
Chicago Tribune
A limply derivative, disappointingly trivial and hokey fish-out-of-water crime comedy. - 50
L.A. Weekly
An abbondanza of busy, situation comedy twists that snip one's suspended disbelief and send it crashing like a chandelier.
