Amazon.com Essentials:
With the help of his lawyer, Georges (Gérard Depardieu), a
composer and one-time petty thief who grew up in poverty,
attempts to escape his life in
Paris and begin anew in America by illegally marrying Bronte (Andie
MacDowell), a prim and repressed young lady from a privileged life in
Connecticut. Bronte, who has agreed to the scheme for her own self-serving
reasons, is exasperated when the Immigration & Naturalization Service
investigates their case, and she and Georges, whom she detests, must spend
time together studying each other's lives to avoid disaster. The fallout,
and how it ends, is infinitely more delightful than your run-of-the-mill
Hollywood romantic comedy, and the very ending itself stops deliciously
short of where Hollywood would feel compelled to drag the story. Fine
performances are given by MacDowell, Depardieu--who is
fiercely charming pounding the keyboard of a Steinway at an upper class
Manhattan dinner party--and Bebe Neuwirth, who is perfect as an upper-class
child turned artist who revels in her irresponsibility. --James
McGrath
