A pleasant, mindless tale of a woman who becomes single after having her
liberal activist boyfriend leave her (not a loss, in my opinion) to go rescue
an indian tribe somewhere. Her mother puts a personals ad in the paper for
her, and this leads her to several "dates" (meetings in the local pub
actually-- perhaps she should have checked into AA instead, meet more people
there). In a parallel plot in the film, Mr. Right does the usual wonderful
perfect things Mr. Right is expected to do, but she manages to miss meeting
him on several occasions. I guess the movie is more of a testament to singles
life in the '90s, and how we meet (and fail to impress) people. Seeing the
couple dozen guys she ditched, it made me feel a little depressed. What
will happen to those people? Are they just doomed to be single forever?
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