Two points that struck me about this film...

I've seen in suggested in the threads here that O'Hara's death was tragic... well, it was of course an entire tragic situation, but does anyone feel as I do that there weren't many roads left open to him once this revelation came to him? I got the impression he did care about the girl, but even if it had just been sex, still the knowledge would have almost been enough to kill him. How could you carry on with that information with you all the time? And I didn't see much resistance, much struggle to survive, when he did slip. It was almost a mercy killing, or almost a suicide.

The other point is a lot lighter... I actually learned a good deal about the right way to craft a villain from this movie. I wish Alan Rickman had played Captain Hook in a film version of Peter Pan, because he was just right. He looked right, he had the right combination of exaggerated meanness and comedic sparkle.

Then came Hugh Grant. I was actually favorably impressed with Grant's acting in this as well, because of the way he played Hook. His character was just plain mean, scary, made the children cry because he didn't understand how to play it in spite of his line of work. Somehow he had been in the theater for so long without really knowing that a villain mustn't be totally evil when you're playing to children. Being a man with no visible sense of humor, he displayed none in his performance. I remember that in spite of the distinct skin-crawly sensation I was having at the time due to the plot reveal of Stella's parentage, I still was impressed at this discovery. It just sort of figures that a Peter Pan play with a Hook like that would have Tinkerbell stay dead.