Synopsis
After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris despite her crippling fear of flying. On the way she unwittingly smuggles something of value that has a charming crook chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.
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Cast
- Meg RyanKate
- Kevin KlineLuc Teyssier
- Timothy HuttonCharlie
- Jean RenoInspector Jean-Paul Cardon
- Adam BrooksPerfect Passenger
- François CluzetBob
- Suzan AnbehJuliette
- Renée HumphreyLilly
- Michael RileyM. Campbell
Recommendations
- 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ryan's comic timing continues to delight, while Kline is touchingly heartfelt as a man doing what is evidently all too easy to do -- fall in love with Meg Ryan. - 70
Washington Post
Ryan secretes cuteness as if suffering from an overactive pituitary gland. And in Lawrence Kasdan's latest, she gives you nothing more or less than herself. - 60
Los Angeles Times
French Kiss tries to be a glass of pink champagne, but some of the fizz has gone out of the bottle. But director Lawrence Kasdan and screenwriter Adam Brooks cram so many potshots into the piece that, after a while, it makes you laugh anyway. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
Kline's Frenchman is somehow not worldly enough, and Ryan's heroine never convinces us she ever loved her fiance in the first place. A movie about this kind of material either should be about people who feel true passion or should commit itself as a comedy. Compromise is pointless. - 50
ReelViews
The delicate air of romance that often makes this sort of film worthwhile is absent. French Kiss does it by the numbers, not from the heart. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
French Kiss has only a tenuous hold on reality; it is far more fully steeped in the conventions of latter-day movie romance than in the messy actualities of real-life mating. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
Kevin Kline has some amusing moments, but Meg Ryan's acting runs out of energy, and Lawrence Kasdan's directing is too laid-back to help her out. [7 Jul 1995, p.13] - 40
The New York Times
French Kiss may have a more putatively foolproof formula, but everyone here has done vastly more interesting work. Too much gets lost in translation.
