The two of them are so broke that when it comes time to pay for a dinner at the hotel, Jake hands a credit card to the waiter and prays that it won't be canceled.

A pair of hotel executives, Mercer and Swayle, repeatedly make attempts to confront Jake and Tina about their growing unpaid bill.

[4] In April 1991, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote: "the film runs a bit longer and slower than it should, and tends to lose some of its energy en route".

To watch Andie MacDowell and John Malkovich flounder in roles that might once have gone to Cary Grant and Irene Dunne or William Powell and Myrna Loy is to experience moviegoing misery.

[9] David Gritten (of The Daily Telegraph), for Empire wrote: "a sour, ironic little fable with what it fondly imagines is a moral for our times".