writer john hughes and perhaps well know for his popular yet overrate home alone series score here with a charming and delightful romantic comedy star clever comedian frank whaley . when the town liar jim ( whaley ) lose his umpteenth job in comical fashion . his father lay down an ultimatum . if jim lose one more job he will be kick out of the house . where jim have already confess that he love live at home since the accommodation be four star . have burn most of his bridge with the local businessmen through his incompetence jim have few option leave . and we find our hero a night clean up boy at none other than the local target store . well this lead to all type of mishap and hilarious situation which be execute nicely and by the clumsy and exaggerate yet imminently likable jim . enter the crush interest and portray by the fabulous jennifer conelly . josie be the daughter of a local bigwig and yet she seem disenchant by what life in the small north carolina town have to offer . she be the apple of jim eye and and just about every other male eye within the range of vision . conelly really looked beautiful in this role . it be before she have diet down to where she now have two pool cue for leg . nowadays conelly look a if she have two cracker a day for the last three year . and the nose job which make her face seem sharp and pointier do not become her . but she look amaze here a whaley discovers after they have lock him inside the store for the night and to look after thing and tidy up . josie and you see and in an act of rebellion have lock herself inside the store in a botched shoplift attempt . and it turn out her and jim be the only two people in the building . the dialogue between jim and josie be refresh even if it isn not realistic . jim be incredulously surprised when josie identify him a the town liar . even though she doesn not mean it a an insult . but jim do treat her like a person instead of a sex object and this be something that josie be not use to . the two share tv dinner in front of the electronics presentation and even a slow dance . and you can relate to the way jim would feel in the presence of such a gorgeous creature . he do not want the sun to come up . it not perfect of course . anyone would have a hard time believe that beauty queen josie would fall for the twerpish bullshitting jim . and the actor be be too serious for comedic license . but the thing be and you want to believe it and and that only add to the film charm . eventually and the whole thing start to unravel and the film degenerate into the hughes tradition of bungle burglar and other stupid nonsense and and the magic be lose . but for a brief time the suspension of disbelief make u exist in this modest oasis of romance and and there no red blood american male who do not imagine himself there with conelly . but between the capable antic of the sidesplitting whaley and the remarkable beauty of the breathtaking conelly . they be more than enough to carry a film that definitely have some top moment . credit hughes for come up with a good premise than find the perfect actor to make it work . a very enjoyable and original romantic comedy . 7 out of a possible 10 t. h .