Jane (Whoopi Goldberg) is a singer in New York City, and she’s apparently been doing it for some time – but it looks like her luck has finally run out, because she’s got to find a new job, or at the very least a new place to do it. So she decides to head to Los Angeles to see if she’ll have any better luck there.

While she’s packing her things, her eyes settle on an advertisement that offers to pay someone to help drive to the West Coast. Answering the ad, she meets Robin (Mary-Louise Parker), who is headed West for her own reasons. On the way, they stop in Pittsburgh to pick up Holly (Drew Barrymore), who is an abusive relationship with her drug dealing boyfriend. That’s when things get interesting.

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This movie is widely credited as being the film that brought some fun back to the horror, Scream is easily one of the more enjoyable romps you can enjoy if you’re looking for something in the genre.

Starting with the mysterious death of Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) as she is home alone one night and receives a strange phone call, right up through the end, horror master Wes Craven will keep you guessing throughout.

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Back when Drew Barrymore was trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life, she made this movie about being a bad girl – only she wasn’t that bad. She did it mostly with mental games, and though there is a certain sexual overtone to the movie, there’s actually very little sex in it. Perhaps that means she was over her bad girl phase, since she hit at such a young age.

Or perhaps she was just in need of a paycheck, so she took the opportunity to jump at whatever came along. After all, this was probably the best of all the Poison Ivy movies that were made, so it’s certainly good that she picked the first, rather than one of the others, but you can’t really give her credit for thinking ahead, when there was no guarantee that they would have ever made another one, so who knows?

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Adam Sandler generally isn’t the first actor you think of when it comes to dramatic performances, and this isn’t really a dramatic role, but he did a pretty decent job. Sure, there are moments. There are references to his other films, whether it’s the inclusion of his buddies or names or what-have-you. But there are also moments where he and Drew Barrymore really do fine job of making things work.

Henry Roth (Sandler) is something of a serial liar. He works at the aquarium, but you wouldn’t know it if you were to happen across him in a bar. He tells women that he works for the CIA – or just about any other secret organization – in order to avoid having to call them. He only dates tourists, so that they will leave at the end of their trip and he doesn’t have to see them again. Ever. But that changes when he meets Lucy (Barrymore) one morning at breakfast.

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Last night we had a chance to sit down for some adult time, and caught (sorry) Fever Pitch. It wasn’t our favorite, by any means, but it wasn’t bad, either. It’s probably worth watching if you have a discount theater nearby, or catch it in a discount DVD bin, but I don’t know if I’d go much further than that.

Drew Barrymore plays high-powered businesswoman Lindsey Meeks, who gets together with less-than-ambitious schoolteacher Ben Wrightman (Jimmy Fallon). Both are 30 and neither is taken, so obviously each has problems. Lindsey’s issue is her job. Ben’s problem is that he’s a Red Sox fan.

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