7/10
A product of its time
6 May 2000
This film made me very uncomfortable as a woman of the new millenium. Anabel Sims is trying so hard to get married to Dr. Madison Brown that it seems incredibly pathetic that she has no self of her own, only an exaggerated desire to catch the good doctor. He certainly puts her in her place all throughout the film, but she keeps trying all kinds of silly tricks, until the inevitable happy ending of course.

The one scene that I really liked, however, was the one where she appears at Dr. Brown's lecture on pediatrics to mothers, making an impassioned speech about women needing to have the right to pursue a man out in the open if they so desire. I almost cheered but then she asks the females in the audience to stand up if they have ever used female wiles and subterfuge to catch a man, and they ALL STAND UP!

Those were the bad old days...
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