The first two-thirds of this movie work very nicely as a cartoonish satire of 1950's business. Too bad it starts to take a melodramatic turn and try to get us to care about Norville...who, like everyone else here, is after all only a cartoon character. Do we really care when Wile E. Coyote has an anvil dropped on his head?
Jennifer Jason Leigh tries hard, but can't measure up to Rosalind Russell in "His Girl Friday" or to Kate Hepburn. And though accents don't normally irritate me, hers is atrocious.
Still pretty good overall. Would have been much, much better though if the spirit of the first half of the movie had been preserved till the end, and if Leigh hadn't butchered whatever accent she was attempting to mimic. And, unfortunately, it has a hokey /deus ex machina/ resolution (emphasis on the "machina").
Jennifer Jason Leigh tries hard, but can't measure up to Rosalind Russell in "His Girl Friday" or to Kate Hepburn. And though accents don't normally irritate me, hers is atrocious.
Still pretty good overall. Would have been much, much better though if the spirit of the first half of the movie had been preserved till the end, and if Leigh hadn't butchered whatever accent she was attempting to mimic. And, unfortunately, it has a hokey /deus ex machina/ resolution (emphasis on the "machina").