Movie Info

Set in Boston, the film centers around Erin, a night-shift nurse who has been dumped by her activist boyfriend and has since become cranky, cynical an...(read more...) d monastic. Erin's overbearing mother is determined to help her find a man, so she places a personal ad for her in the local newspaper. Erin is appalled and refuses to cooperate until, in a moment of weakness, she checks her messages - all 62 of them! A sequence of comically nightmarish dates ensues. Meanwhile, across town is Alan, an ambitious ex-plumber struggling to fulfill his dream of becoming a marine biologist. Alan is juggling numerous problems of his own: a seductive classmate, a narcissistic brother, a father with a gambling problem, and his own incurable debt that won't go away. As Alan searches for a way out, Erin searches for the right man. Fate pushes their parallel stories further and further apart, until...

Director: Alan Gelfant, Brad Anderson, Callie Thorne, Cara Buono, H. Jon Benjamin, Holland Taylor, Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Klein, Victor Argo

MPAA: R

Running Time: 1 hr. 34 min.

Release Date: Aug 21, 1998

Cast: Alan Gelfant, Callie Thorne, Cara Buono, H. Jon Benjamin, Holland Taylor, Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Klein, Victor Argo