Suburban housewife Cathy Palmer lives a mundane, frustrating life but allows herself one pleasure -- she absorbs herself in the Rebecca Ryan fiction novel series (almost a woman version of James Bond). She is so fascinated with the character that she enters a contest to write a short story in the style of the Rebecca Ryan novels for a chance to win an expense paid trip for 2 to Paris (the city of her dreams and the setting for the novels).
When she wins, her unappreciative and manipulating husband refuses to go with her, and won't even let her go -- however she's had enough and decides to go anyway! While touring in Paris, she suffers a head injury and wakes up believing that she is in fact Rebecca Ryan! What follows from there on is simply great, funny entertainment. The interaction between Williams and Conti is constantly amusing and downright funny. The hour in the middle of the film where the fantasy is on is wonderful.
Unfortunately, the film wasn't quite as good at the first, and really trailed off in the last half hour as she has to come to grips with reality again. The direction the story took and the way everything was resolved seemed unsatisfying and very average after the wonderful section that preceded it.
One other note: Several others have commented about how this is a wonderful family film, very clean, etc. This really is not in fact the case, unfortunately (it would have been wonderful if this were the case). Palmer's young boys talk crudely about sexual matters and use sexual terms at the first of the film, Cathy ends up sleeping with another man while she's married, etc.
I'd probably rate the middle hour about a 9, and the rest of the film about a 5. But it's worth seeing for the very funny "Rebecca Ryan fantasy hour."
When she wins, her unappreciative and manipulating husband refuses to go with her, and won't even let her go -- however she's had enough and decides to go anyway! While touring in Paris, she suffers a head injury and wakes up believing that she is in fact Rebecca Ryan! What follows from there on is simply great, funny entertainment. The interaction between Williams and Conti is constantly amusing and downright funny. The hour in the middle of the film where the fantasy is on is wonderful.
Unfortunately, the film wasn't quite as good at the first, and really trailed off in the last half hour as she has to come to grips with reality again. The direction the story took and the way everything was resolved seemed unsatisfying and very average after the wonderful section that preceded it.
One other note: Several others have commented about how this is a wonderful family film, very clean, etc. This really is not in fact the case, unfortunately (it would have been wonderful if this were the case). Palmer's young boys talk crudely about sexual matters and use sexual terms at the first of the film, Cathy ends up sleeping with another man while she's married, etc.
I'd probably rate the middle hour about a 9, and the rest of the film about a 5. But it's worth seeing for the very funny "Rebecca Ryan fantasy hour."