HAPPY ACCIDENTS

2001

The best way that I can think of to describe this warped, quirky love story is by comparing it to other movies and TV shows. Here goes. It's a combination of a romantic comedy like "You've Got Mail,"/ "Sleepless in Seattle," and The X-Files. Or, try mixing "Sex and the City" and "Star Trek." If that doesn't clarify things for you, here's the plot: Ruby (Marisa Tomei) meets Sam (Vincent D'Onofrio) and falls for this sweet and gentle oddball, until his idiosyncrasies and strange behavior are explained by him as the result of being a time traveler who has returned illegally from 400 years in the future!!! Is he really a time traveler, or is he a very sick person with a very real earthly disease? Whatever! It won ME over with its oddball originality...and fine acting.

4 Stars

NJB