The film depicts the story of the relationship between journalists Dan Hanson (Kevin Bacon) and Lorie Bryer (Elizabeth Perkins) told twice – once from each perspective.

Shortly after starting their rivalrous, side-by-side columns, conservative Dan and liberal Lorie experience a case of opposites attracting.

Close to three years after the column and their relationship commencing, a morning talk show appearance inspires a local channel to offer them a TV program.

Early on, Lorie helps him hide from one woman he has jilted, later she sees his flirtatious interaction with women she perceives to be excessively sexily dressed and not very bright.

Then, Lorie does a live redo response to the previous day's topic, the merger of two highways—a veiled reference to their relationship—this time saying the proposal was a bad idea.

Instead they built a newsroom on a corner of the city room on the 8th floor of the Signet Tower for the scenes set at the Sun offices.

[4] In a two-star review, Roger Ebert described it as "a gentle little film that raises some questions about the different ways men and women view reality, does not answer them, and succeeds in being entertaining all the same.