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This movie has class, elegance, and excellence written all over it. It has three sharply drawn characters in the detective (Berenger), his wife (Bracco) and the murder witness (Rogers). The detective's conflict between his familiar and safe family life and the stylish world of the beautiful (and available) murder witness is heart rending, and one feels for all three characters in the story. But the detective's son turns out to be the key to the ultimate resolution of the conflict, foreshadowed early on when the detective and his wife are yelling at each other "did you hear what I said?" and a little voice from another room shouts out "did you hear what I said?". An irresistible movie, it seems to get better with each viewing.

A guy needs to make a car trip from New York to Los Angeles in four days, and advertises in the paper for someone to share the driving. A very talkative but attractive young woman answers the ad, and convinces him to take her along. The movie consists of the comedic interactions on their trip that gradually transform their relationship from one in which he is immediately sorry he brought her along, to the inevitable realization that they are in love, not with those they presumably drove across America to see, but with each other.

The two main characters complemented each other perfectly - he the level headed guy, she the dizzy dame he finally falls for. The dialogue, written by Louise Lasser, was fall-down funny. A certain ability to suspend reality is necessary to get into the spirit of the movie, but for those who can, it is a trip you will remember for a long time.