I Love Trouble

Screen favorites Julia Roberts (NOTTING HILL, MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING) and Nick Nolte (THE THIN RED LINE, AFFLICTION) team up to deliver high-voltage star power to this action-packed comedy hit! Roberts and Nolte are Chicago reporters working in hot competition -- and she's not about to give him a break. But when a high-profile story they're trying to crack leads them on the trail of a murder, they find themselves thrown together to uncover a billion-dollar fraud! Applauded by critics and audiences alike, I LOVE TROUBLE is a fast-paced, thrill-packed comedy you're sure to love!

The writer-producer-director team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride) can't lift this sugary ode to Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday to a believable--let alone enjoyable--plateau. Neither, unfortunately, can its two great and perfectly cast leads, Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts. As competing newspaper reporters after the same story, there should be enough sparks and brilliantly barbed dialogue flying between them to resurrect the screwball comedy genre of classic Hollywood. But the material isn't there, the charisma isn't there, and the direction (by Shyer) certainly isn't there. At more than two hours, the film begins to dismantle itself, and the cute factor becomes a pain. --Tom Keogh