Roy (Nicolas Cage) is a con man with an issue. He is an obsessive compulsive (among other things). He has to open and close doors three times (each – although there are a few times that he forgets, which indicates that perhaps it’s all in his head).

Luckily, he has a caring partner in Frank (Sam Rockwell), who helps him remember to take his medicine when he needs to do so, and manages to set up plenty of short cons, where Roy can just walk in and help clean up the mess so that they can rake in some easy, if small, money. Frank just wants to get Roy to make a big hit.

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Everyone knows that they need someone, and this is a film that attempts to chronicle the process of finding someone for several twenty-somethings in Seattle during the nineties.

Janet (Bridget Fonda) just wants someone to say gesundheit when she sneezes, but on-and-off-again boyfriend Cliff (Matt Dillon) is more concerned about his band than Janet (Cliff also serves as something of a narrator).

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This isn’t as much fun as George Clooney’s other late-90s romp, Out of Sight, but it’s not bad, all things considered.

For one, it’s a lot lighter, involving two single parents and their kids, and what happens one day when they both end up having to actually care for the kids – a state neither of them is used to experiencing. Typically they are more wrapped up in their careers and just let the kids go to school or they are taken care of by someone else. For another, the situations revolve around more wholesome pursuits and less around criminal activity.

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