With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
Writing
Steve Martin's script is pure verbal gymnastics—Shakespeare for the smog era.
Acting
Martin's physical comedy collides with Richard E. Grant's magnificent unhinged energy.
Cinematography
LA as pastel fantasyland—every freeway sign a potential prophet.
Director
Mick Jackson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant married in real life shortly after filming; they divorced in 1994, making the film's romantic prophecy slightly cursed.
This is essentially Jane Austen's 'Emma' transplanted to LA—Martin's character is Emma Woodhouse as weather-obsessed bachelor, meddling in everyone's forecasts.
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