not quite a bomb . the only thing missing be the enriched uranium . actually the script may have work if the lead role have be cast with young actor and but the dramatics of an age diane lane act a if she be a teenager ( or even a twenty something ) be too much to stomach . every time she ( adrienne ) would jump into the arm of richard gere and then pull both heel up behind her and you could almost see the grimace of pain on his face a he be probably think and oh and my ache back . this babe sure doesn not weight 125 lb . anymore . anyway and both character be distinctly unlikeable and especially richard gere represent a self absorb plastic surgeon ( dr. paul flanner ) that be on some kind of soul quest after a botched operation leave him with a dead patient ( an old woman from a small farm ) . then there be her angry husband and son he have to deal with to explain what happen . dr. flanner be on his way to meet say angry husband ( at the husband request ) when he meet up with adrienne . she be recently split from her unfaithful husband ( shock ) and be help out a friend by watch her beach front cottage rental . of course and that where dr. flanner end up stay and they both end up fall madly in love ( especially after she find out he be a rich doctor and a plastic surgeon ) . in between romantic interlude and a nauseating song or dance routine that lane ( adrienne ) performs while listen to an old lp ( no cd . ) and they both try to figure how their life get so totally screw up . dr. flanner be also not much of a father and have a son ( who be also a dr. ) who resent him for not be there for him while he be grow up . ( naturally dr. flanner be more interested in his medical career at the time rather than raise an impetuous and distract boy . ) to make a long ( predictable ) story short and adrienne help dr. flanner face his inner demon as well a confront say angry husband and son of the woman who die on his operating table ( after go in for a routine cyst removal of the face ) . dr. flanner be finally able to tell the husband ( play excruciatingly sympathetic by scott glenn ) that he be sorry for what happen even though it be all the fault of that danged anesthesiologist . i tell him she be too old for that much juice . glenn character and ( robert torrelson ) appear to accept dr. flanner apology . it hard to tell because his emotional response be so passive by this time that you wonder if if he be even hear the good dr. at all or think about some acreage that he need to plow . ever more circumspect and dr. flanner then decide he need to visit his son ( who be now practice medicine pro bono in a third world country ) to mend their relationship . unfortunately and that mean he must temporarily bid adieu to adrienne . of course and while entertain the native in timbuktu and he write a love letter every hour on the hour to adrienne ( who nearly swoon like a school girl every time she get one ) and tell her that the hard thing he ever have to do be to tell her goodbye . evidently and apologize to robert torrelson for his wife death be the second hard thing . in the end he get kill in a freak mud slide ( poetic justice a in mud pack . ) and she be leave with just the memory of what could have be . hopefully no more gere or lane sequel .