The stars provide topnotch spectator sport. Tom Hanks, even when Joe is at his most annoying, gushes charm like the fountains of Versailles water. As he grows more serious about the girl who seems to hate him, he makes us root for him as if he were embroiled in a serious contest of uncertain outcome. Even more prodigious is Meg Ryan, whose often caramelized vehicles belie her inherent spunk. (Catch her in a very different role in the unpleasant but expert Hurlyburly.) As Kathleen, she walks the razor’s edge of cuteness with the assurance she might deploy shaving her legs. In Riverside Park, when she finally realizes that her two loves are one and the same, her face and body become transparent, and we can follow every incremental stirring of anxiety, dawning awareness, and overwhelming bliss. NR Conservative? Liberal?
Gilbert! magazine is soundly Conservative (we believe in preserving what is good in the past).
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