let me get this straight representhotshot plastic surgeon lose a patient on the operating table while remove a cyst from her face and end up fall in love with recently separate bed and breakfast hostess within about 24 hour of meet her due to her solid advice on bedside manner . wow . move over the notebook and there a new kid in town . where to begin . well and how about the depth of this relationship . i think we can safely sum up the foundation of this undying love in the following step represent1 . exchange polite pleasantry over a bite of salad . 2. drink copious amount of jack daniel while play basketball with old food 3. provide glib and unsolicited advice to each other on your crappy life . 4. make love during a hurricane . 5. devote your life to each other via airmail . i notice george c wolfe have the hairball and united kanye west project in his dossier . would stick to your genre be too harsh . enough say . i think most would agree that the best love story make u cry and or laugh or even hope . but the reason they be able to do that be that and somewhere during the storyline and we really start to care about the character be watch on screen . to make u care and there must be time spent develop these character . their life and their history and why be watch them now . wolfe do not seem to want to waste our time with such triviality and and instead provide u with all of about 8 minute of background information on each character before hurl u into an intense one on one interaction between two actor we have all come to adore and but two character we could care less about . for one brief tender moment when richard gere exclaim that he doesn not expect her to listen to his problem and and she invite him for dinner and the viewer see a glimmer a beginning of something special between these two character . but instead of be allow to enjoy the anticipation and playfulness of what happen next in the wonderful and unpredictable joy that be courtship and we be instead push headlong into a love affair between two people we hardly know . let face it . we have all hear cheesy one liner in romantic film . but the reason we cut some slack to bogart in casablanca or nicholson in something get ta give be because our heart and mind have be lift to the heaven and drag through the mud and back again with these character and and by the time they deliver the line and be so deeply involved with their plight and we do not even notice the cheese factor . since wolfe doesn not allow u to love or even like our protagonist and all be leave with a fromage sandwich and a few snicker in the audience . wolfe take the old hollywood director phrase cut to the chase much too literally here . a each stilted one liner be deliver by our cast and the viewer be leave wonder if director wolfe be subliminally say to the audience represent c amon . it a richard gere romance . just buy in . it be a a result of this stunning lack of character or relationship development that the film climax fail miserably to tug at our heart . when gere character dy and i felt like i be watch the news about someone i do not know pass away . or watch a lady eights row race during the beijing olympics . just . didn not . care . epic . fail .