For a long time it looked as if film-makers couldn't make a romantic comedy if Cupid himself unloaded a quiverful of arrows into their butts. Thankfully, 1999 has already managed to deliver a clutch of plausible rom-coms (Shakespeare In Love, Forces Of Nature). But this is the first that harks back to the tradition of '40s romances, when the battle-between-the-sexes dialogue and interplay between the leads is what makes the movie.
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