Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

shellirk I just watched this film on TV and the guide listing gave it one star. I'm glad I didn't see that first. This movie was great if you aren't huge fans of Patrick Swayze and Melanie Griffith. Both have an infinity for playing very soulful characters. Penelope Ann Miller plays Patricks wife, Claire. She's a Psychiatrist and her role shows you that being a Psychiatrist doesn't mean you've got all the answers. Melanie plays a mentally unstable woman with the grace she's always brought to her characters. You can empathize with this woman, but you're not sure you can believe her and I'll leave it at that. You'll want to believe her. Patrick is much like Melanie, when given a role that takes heart, he puts his into it and you can see traces of all his heartfelt roles in him here. This movie isn't a comedy, its categorized in the wrong genre. Melanie plays Lulu. Patrick is Ben. They were in love until circumstances led Ben to move on. Lulu is mentally ill and life takes her down a different path. Ben, through Lulu's verbal recollections has flashbacks that exposes just how deeply troubled Lulu is and it's not pretty. She tells Ben they had a baby and she gave him up for adoption and they're going to go see him on his 16th birthday. Ben doesn't believe her, but because he ends up going along with her,he wants to believe. Claire, his wife, isn't happy at all at the news that he's gone off with his ex. She's going to make some mistakes here. What plays out isn't as transparent as some comment's have suggested. You think you know it all, but you don't. You'll want more and all I can say from here on out, you're given more. I cried, I hated it that I did, but there I was, tears rolling down my cheeks. This is a great movie if you've got it in you to care. Sure, there are parts that really didn't matter nor lend to the story at all, but it's a good thing WE aren't writer's of movies, imagine the messes we'd make!It was great, no .. it was wonderful to see this today. Patrick looks so healthy and handsome. Melanie beautiful and sweet. Penelope is beautiful and since she is a dancer as well, I would have loved to have seen her and Patrick dancing at least once. It was a good afternoon here...

vchimpanzee Lulu has had mental problems for years, but she is relatively stable and living in the Valley View home. Ben is a writer for an Emmy-nominated sci-fi TV series, married to Claire, a psychiatrist.Lulu gave up for adoption the son she had with Ben 16 years ago, though she never told Ben she was pregnant. She knows the boy's name is Martin and that he was adopted by the Ellsworths, a college professor and his wife living in Madison, Wisconsin. With his birthday coming up, she believes this is the perfect opportunity to take that road trip she wanted to back when they were dating. She sneaks out of the home and meets Ben, who is reluctant to drive from Los Angeles to Wisconsin. But Lulu gets a friend at the home to pretend to be the boy's father on the phone, so Ben thinks the meeting has been arranged.When Claire finds out what Ben has done, she is furious and decides to follow him. On the airplane, she tells her story to a stranger. She seems like such a witch, but it turns out she and Ben lost a son to leukemia, and she does show a vulnerable side.Ben and Lulu have a fun trip, with a few problems because of Lulu's mental state. Well, anyway, it's fun for us. Lulu does take off her clothes when a motel has a pool, and I think certain body parts were blurred on TV. Ben starts out uptight but ends up enjoying the experience.It is fortunate that Claire followed Ben and Lulu. She is able to provide a lot of help, especially when she finds out the Ellsworths don't know Lulu and Ben are coming. She really is a caring person, despite what we have seen so far.The meeting with the Ellsworths is pleasant enough at first, but it's not too hard to figure out what will happen. However, everything has a way of working out.Melanie Griffith is so wonderful as Lulu. Such a sweet girl, and so funny and easy to like, though somewhat troubled. Most of the leading actors give good performances. There are a couple of disturbing scenes, including one with blood from one of the several flashbacks of Lulu's earlier relationship with Ben.This is a cute but quirky adventure.

PGMcCullough Where to begin? Ah yes - In the role of the novelist: Patrick Swayze....You can tell he is intellectual, because he made the daring character choice of wearing glasses.Fortunately for Swayze, Melanie Griffith was cast opposite, making him Olivier by comparison.Her character - Lulu - begs to be strangled. I seriously scraped my knuckles trying to reach through the screen to choke her. She's supposed to be this schizo - a tender, profound soul with an impulsive, child-like disposition - but it comes off as the most affected crap you've ever seen.It especially drove me crazy as I live in New York surrounded by NYU girls that are equally desperate to seem quirky.If you see this on television, don't watch it. Turn off the TV, get up, leave your house, wait AT LEAST 3 hours (Just to be safe - these movies can really get stretched out with commercials), and then kill yourself.

colin-macphail Forget all the analyses and comparisons and fan enthusiasm. Forget the stupid episode of Penelope Miller (playing a qualified psychiatrist) throw herself at a fellow air traveler (thank goodness they didn't add in a bedroom scene - that would really have driven the film off course!). This film is emotional, yes, but also real. I know individuals who have gone through torment like this. I am also impressed by the way in which each character came quietly to grips with his/her situation at the end. That was very perceptive of the makers because that was what would have happened. The way that Swayze's character communicates with his wife in the car on leaving the airport is very believable and makes you appreciate the work they are both going to put in to remake their marriage. Probably the whole ending winds you up so tightly because of Lauren Kinkade's song "Say Goodbye". She sounds so much like Sheena Easton and that made me sit up as SE and Melanie Griffiths have a Don Johnson connection. That would have been too much!! I'm really glad to have come across this DVD.