Ok, so it's not as good as John Hughes' other films but this had potential.
In fact, up until the last twenty minutes when the two crooks/killers turn up this is quite an enjoyable, if somewhat daft, little comedy.
It feels a lot like Mannequin in the set up and it could have had a really sweet ending where Josie has to go home with her abusive father, only for Jim to sweep in and rescue her and take her to California etc.
But instead we end up with a ludicrous final act where the two crooks somehow get in to Target despite it being locked up, get conned by Jim in to handing their guns over, only for him to hand them back, Josie teasing the crooks by riding on a kids rocking horse before stealing their car and Jim immobilising the crooks with a double barrelled shotgun that fires about 8 shots without reloading!!! There's also a whole segment involving Jim's father that seems like it was working towards a "I'm sorry for being so hard on you son" moment, that never gets resolved.
It feels like those last 20 minutes were written by someone else who hadn't watched the first two acts.
Both Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly were doing a decent job of selling the "loser gets the hot girl" premise and it's such a shame that the film played out in the way it did.
In fact, up until the last twenty minutes when the two crooks/killers turn up this is quite an enjoyable, if somewhat daft, little comedy.
It feels a lot like Mannequin in the set up and it could have had a really sweet ending where Josie has to go home with her abusive father, only for Jim to sweep in and rescue her and take her to California etc.
But instead we end up with a ludicrous final act where the two crooks somehow get in to Target despite it being locked up, get conned by Jim in to handing their guns over, only for him to hand them back, Josie teasing the crooks by riding on a kids rocking horse before stealing their car and Jim immobilising the crooks with a double barrelled shotgun that fires about 8 shots without reloading!!! There's also a whole segment involving Jim's father that seems like it was working towards a "I'm sorry for being so hard on you son" moment, that never gets resolved.
It feels like those last 20 minutes were written by someone else who hadn't watched the first two acts.
Both Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly were doing a decent job of selling the "loser gets the hot girl" premise and it's such a shame that the film played out in the way it did.
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