With: Andie MacDowell, Gerard Depardieu, Bebe Neuwirth, Greg Edelman
Plot: A frenchman (Depardieu) marries a New York botanist (MacDowell) so he can get a green card to stay in the country, and so that she can move into an apartment with a greenhouse that only allows married couples. They go their separate ways but when Immigration comes investigating, they must learn everything about one another to fool them.
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Unexpectedly pleasant, it even achieves the near impossible feat of making Andie Macdowell likeable, and its imposed typical romcom deception conceipt (where they get to like each other through pretending to like each other) is quite underplayed and lightly handled, unlike the shrieking contrivances of stuff like How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days. There's nothing groundbreaking about the tentative romance on display here, but it manages to feel quite natural, and you find yourself caring about the characters enough to make the ending properly sad. Pretty good.
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