The best thing about this movie is it starts off with Roy Orbison's song "Only The Lonely". It's not a bad film, mind you, it just would have been much better as an old-fashioned one. Namely, all the sex talk should have been eliminated, and the incredibly shy mortuary cosmetologist in it should not have wanted to sleep with the nice cop after only a couple of dates. It was a bit unbelievable, too, that she so quickly went from being so shy that she could hardly speak to being a self-confident woman. (Maybe the movie was proposing that sex instantly changes someone for the better.)
Maureen O'Hara, in her last movie role, was not a pleasant character. Yet she is not so offensive that she comes across as repulsive. What she says is indeed that offensive, but Miss O'Hara fails to seem truly hateful. She is simply repeating stereotypes she learned as a child. Anthony Quinn is once again a Greek in this movie, and he is the stereotypical Greek lover type. Ho-hum. John Candy comes across extremely well and extremely sweet. His actions in the film seemed unbelievable at times, but that didn't wreck the story. What damaged it is it's like a '60s story set in the 1990s.
Maureen O'Hara, in her last movie role, was not a pleasant character. Yet she is not so offensive that she comes across as repulsive. What she says is indeed that offensive, but Miss O'Hara fails to seem truly hateful. She is simply repeating stereotypes she learned as a child. Anthony Quinn is once again a Greek in this movie, and he is the stereotypical Greek lover type. Ho-hum. John Candy comes across extremely well and extremely sweet. His actions in the film seemed unbelievable at times, but that didn't wreck the story. What damaged it is it's like a '60s story set in the 1990s.