Thirty-year-old Harold McMurphy (Jeremy Piven) has a love affair with old movies. He puts this enchantment to good use on his job as a Hollywood tour bus guide. His father (Alex Rocco) runs the company and lives with him in an apartment. He views his son as "a dreamer" and worries about his future.
Harold's uneventful life takes a swerve when he meets Amanda Clark (Sherilyn Fenn), a successful movie star whose agent Sydney Stone (JoBeth Williams) is moving her career on the fast track. Trying to emulate a bartender friend who has a way with women, Harold tells Amanda that he's a writer with a big-time agent. She's more impressed with their shared respect for old films. When Amanda asks Harold to do a rewrite of the script for her next film, he is forced to come to grips with untapped abilities and his deep romantic attraction to Amanda.
Andrew Gallerani directs this breezy romantic comedy with a deft touch. Amanda and Harold seem destined for each other — soul mates who mesh gracefully. "Love doesn't rule, it educates," Goethe once wrote. In this case Harold gives in to love and discovers a whole new vocational path.