Kate (Meg Ryan) is afraid to fly for the first time, and as a result, her soon-to-be-husband Charlie (Timothy Hutton) heads off to Paris without her.

On his first night there, he calls her at exactly six o’clock. On the next night, it’s a few minutes after six. On some indeterminate night (perhaps the third, perhaps several nights later), it’s nearly 6:45, and he has some bad news. He’s fallen in love with a French woman, who he will be marrying, and he won’t be coming home. This can’t be good.

Kate decides that rather than sitting around and moping, she is going to do something about this. She packs up her bags and gets on a plane and heads to Paris. There’s just one problem. She’s still afraid to fly. It gets worse when a rude, smelly Frenchman named Luc (played by the typically enjoyable Kevin Kline) sits next to her on the plane.

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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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