BILL BENNETT

Bil’s rating (out of 5):   BB. 

USA, 1996.  Morgan Creek Entertainment.  Story by Denis Leary, Mike Armstrong, Ann Lembeck, Screenplay by Denis Leary, Mike Armstrong. Cinematography by Andrew Lesnie.  Produced by James G. Robinson.  Music by Nick Glennie-Smith, Paddy Moloney.  Production Design by David Chapman.  Costume Design by Olga Dimitrov.  Film Editing by Bruce Green.  

Sandra Bullock hits a very low note after such successes like The Net and While You Were Sleeping with this unfunny, uneven romantic comedy. She plays the girlfriend of an art thief (Denis Leary, who co-wrote the screenplay) who must hide out with him in a rural cottage while they’re waiting for his latest acquisition to find a buyer. In the meantime she finds herself being wooed by the local good guy who has no idea with whom he’s messing around. Bullock tries for a semi-Brooklyn accent that never really takes off, and she has absolutely no chemistry with Leary.