Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we review one of the more underappreciated romantic comedies from the ’90s. It was hyped by its studio as “The NEXT Pretty Woman” and while it didn’t even come close to approaching runaway success of that Julia Roberts blockbuster, you could make a case that it’s a superior movie.  

It stars Andie MacDowell and ‘80’s French acting phenomenon Gerard Depardieu (in his first English-speaking role) as a botanist and French ex-patriate who get married as part of an arrangement for him to receive his "green card" and permanent resident status.  

As you would expect, they both get more than they bargained for as the INS is cracking down on situations like this so they both have to PRETEND that they are a married couple in love….or are they in fact pretending?  Acclaimed Australian filmmaker Peter Weir directed this gem as his follow-up to runaway hit Dead Poet’s Society which came out the year before.

Host: Geoff Gershon
Producer: Marlene Gershon

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