However, as their love affair does not run smoothly, their friends Liam (Bruce Martyn Payne) and Pia (Kristin Dattilo) intervene to try to help.

[6] The TV Guide reviewer stated that 'Bacon and Sedgwick are both charming and exasperating as the modern lovers, a combination of self-centered innocence and mannered brittleness that rings all too true'.

[6] The TV Guide reviewer also commented that 'the supporting cast, particularly Bruce Martyn Payne and Kristin Dattilo as the friends who find themselves drawn into Ari and Sam's affair despite their best efforts to stay out, are uniformly good' but 'their work is undercut at every turn by the aggressively clever style' of the film'.

[6] John Ferguson stated that Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick gave 'it their best shot, but director Noah Stern doesn't take the original idea anywhere interesting and, in the end, it's far too self-consciously wacky for its own good'.

[7] Ferguson also stated that 'Englishman abroad Bruce Martyn Payne - he would drop the middle name for Passenger 57 - offers solid support as Bacon's best chum'.