Andrew Bergman directs Nicolas Cage, James Caan and Sarah Jessica Parker in this Elvis marinated romantic comedy about a gangster who tricks a pair of almost weds into letting him date the bride to be for a weekend. 

I remember watching this at the fleapit in West Ealing. Possibly the first movie I watched alone in the cinema. God, that’s a sad sentence. And I love going to the cinema on my todd. It is a strange film, with an off putting set-up (Cage essentially whores his true love out, albeit under pressure) yet it works. There’s a compulsive gaudy energy to it, matching The King soundtrack, matching Cage’s barely restrained everyman acting. Colourful and propulsive, it works if you leave your brain, and ethics, at the door.

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