Building Up To An Awful Let-Down ...

Author: writers_reign from London, England
3 September 2005

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

... to paraphrase the lyric Johnny Mercer wrote to Fred Astaire's music way back when. This features the delectable Carole Bouquet as a lawyer with two adolescents and no husband on her hands. What she is happy to treat as a one-night stand backfires when the guy in question falls in love with her and decides to move in. In real life a lawyer wouldn't have much of a problem getting him to leave but this is movies as opposed to real life so the solution she comes up with is to have the whole house renovated.

Predictably it winds up as a sort of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House-lite with chaos accelerating until just when everything collapsible has collapsed and been rebuilt half the crew turn out to be illegals with no papers so the flics raid the joint, the illegals take it on the Jesse Owens but not without destroying the house again. There's lots to enjoy here not least Bouquet letting her hair down.