It's engaging and clever, though it doesn't have the magic or charm of Next Stop Wonderland. The cast is very good, particularly Tomei -- her Ruby is a hopeless romantic who's been burned so many times that she's wary despite her instinctive attraction to Sam. It's a nicely constructed, intimate story that has oddly ambivalent themes of codependency and trust.
It also features a very weird cameo from Anthony Michael Hall (playing himself) for no particular reason. One of the characters likes to fantasize that he's Anthony Michael Hall when he's having sex with his girlfriend -- I don't know where to start listing all the things that nauseate me about that statement, and besides, how do you pretend to be Anthony Michael Hall? Slobber over her underwear and then disappear for twenty years? -- and then Hall himself shows up, and the really sad thing is that even though he's playing himself, he's still terrible.
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