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Summary: For an awkward, self-conscious girl like Kiki, being the personal assistant to a beautiful mega-star like Gwen isn't easy. But when she dutifully accepts the task of helping Gwen and her estranged mega-star husband Eddie make it through one last public appearance masterminded by legendary press agent Lee Phillips, forever devoted Kiki finds that her job is about to get even harder.
Original in theme, but not in substance. It's really tiring to see films that do an Ugly Duckling. Can't we have something where the guy recognizes that the fat chick was the one he really wanted all along while she's still fat?
Hank Azaria's fight scene brings about the only thing I enjoyed in this movie, which is the line: "I tried to walk away, but the guy just kept pushing. So I hit him in the tray with my face."
Completely standard rom-com, but the cast makes it work more than most of its ilk. That it's a movie about movies (sort of. junkets, anyway) or that the script is co-written by Billy Crystal and has a slight amount of his wit to it certainly help the cause, but I find movies that cast Julia Roberts as plain-jane nobody girls -- especially ones with retarded names like Kiki -- to be...disingenuous. I guess I'm just a sucker for Cusack and Crystal but I enjoyed this, just not enough to recommend.
It's not particularly great from a romantic point of view, but it's as worth it as ever to see Billy Crystal playing a scheming press agent with his usual style. There are definitely some laughs here, but perhaps not as many as there could be.