1st watched 1/8/2006, 5 out of 10(Dir-Tiffanie Debartolo): Promising romantic comedy that doesn't quite deliver. It's hard for me to put a finger on why this movie stopped working for me about the time it changed from black&white to color when the heroine, Frankie(played by Ione Skye)meets her hopeful blue-eyed knight in shining armor, David(played by Mackenzie Austin), but in the next few sentences I'm going to try and explain. The players don't do a bad job but you get the feeling that the Hollywood happy ending is going to transpire too early on, and the interest in the rest of the movie becomes lacking. Ione plays a woman who hasn't got a good night's sleep since her parents died in a car crash at age six, and I think her hope in life has been diminishing from that point in time as well. Jennifer Anniston plays her happy-go-lucky actor friend who plays her comforter and tries to cheer her up as well as her gay cousin but neither are very successful. Frankie is looking for the blue-eyed Frank Sinatra-type to whisk her off her feet as Frank S. had done in real life with her father by giving him a break in the music business a long time ago. That man comes along in David Shrader(or at least she thinks so) but he's been dragging along a girlfriend for a few years and we're all waiting for him to wake-up, smell the coffee and go for Frankie. I won't give away the ending, although I've hinted at it already, but "you know what" eventually happens. The supporting cast is very good in this movie, but the main characters don't quite pull it off in this hopeful, but in-the-end flat, romantic flick.

Applause to Tiffanie DeBartolo for this well written and directed film. I rarely get to see many movies twice but I just had a chance to see this film again and I was glued to the TV from the opening credits to the very end! The actors become the characters so easily, it is almost as though you are a customer in the shop eavesdropping. I really enjoy watching Mackenzie Astin and I enjoyed the great acting from the other actors in this film. The way the Frank Sinatra memorabilia is used and displayed is beautiful. If you ever had one of those love at first sight kind of meetings (even if you haven't) you will really enjoy this film.

This was a sweet, simple romantic comedy. I enjoyed all the allusions to musicians, authors and literary works. I thought the transition from black and white to color was effective--especially because it focused on David's blue eyes first . . .thus alluding to Frank Sinatra who is "present" throughout the film in a variety of ways. Jennifer Aniston played a fun, interesting character. Just what accent would she use next? All in all it was a fun, entertaining movie!

This movie fails horribly. The writer/director tries to fill the movie with witty dialogue, but lacks the skill to make it successful. Dialogue should flow effortlessly, but the actors in this film obviously struggle to regurgitate their lines. A novice attempt.