French Kiss

Flipping through channels I found an Encore Love presentation of French Kiss. French Kiss is your typical 90's romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, and Timothy Hutton. Meg Ryan reprises her role as the talkative, anal over-achiever who learns to relax through the help of a man she just happens to meet. Ryan's character Kate is a teacher engaged to a Canadian looking to make her happy ending. But when her fiance (Timothy Hutton) goes to France and suddenly cancels their wedding, Kate doesn't know what to do. She forces herself to conquer her fear of flying to go to Paris and find him to see what happened. But in her attempt to find him she runs into a thief (Kevin Kline) who makes her trip into a disaster. Thanks to him and the various French thieves he knows Kate loses her luggage, money, and ends up having him stash his stolen goods in her only bag. And each time they think they have everything settled between them, Luc (Kline) realizes there's something else in her bag. In the end to make sure he gets all of his goods back, Luc promises to help her get her fiance back and ends up falling in love with her. As Kate travels through France to win her fiance she learns about Luc's life and also falls in love with him. Can they realize that they love each other in time? Being a romantic comedy you know everything works out for the best and that they end up together at the end. And while the movie followed all of the cheesy plot lines and Kline's French accent was terrible, I still enjoyed it. Every once in a while you need that cheesy love story to feed that hopeless romantic inside. So French Kiss may not be award winning but it certainly fulfills my hopeless romantic needs.