Zero chemistry!

I absolutely agree!! Ricki Lake couldn't have been a worse choice for leading lady. It could have been a much better film with somebody/anybody else playing Connie/Patricia.

Agreed. Everyone was cast perfectly except for Ricki.

I watched this movie again last night. It is such a cute movie, but as others have said, Rikki Lake was a far fetch as the lead. A poster in another thread had mentioned Sandra Bullock as Connie/Patricia character. It would have been so much better.

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I would like to argue that there are chemistry problems, but it is really a writing problem and not an actor problem. (I mean of course some one like Sandra Bullock would have been better, but the issues with chemistry are not rooted in the actors). I mean they walk around the city, she wipes something from Frasier's mouth and suddenly there are suppose to be sparks. There was no well written repartee or real common bond between the characters in the screenplay. She then seems to want to turn down money and does a tango and there is kissing. You could argue that a good actor could make sparks fly, but I doubt it. Sure maybe pure sexual chemistry from a "hot" actress could be understood, but not real caring love which is what is implied. The problem I think people actually have with this is that Lake does not fit the model type of romcom leading lady, and although this is not a romcom strictly the same limited amount of actual interaction drives the movement to coupling. The whole process of falling in love is written as inevitable, predestined by fate, and not because of anything that would actually bring two people to fall in love instantaneously. So leave off poor Ricki, she's not a good actress, but the chemistry is a script problem more than anything else.