America's Sweethearts

America's Sweethearts is is a rather amusing romantic comedy which, without being out-and-out satire, pokes fun at Tinseltown's fawning over the media and at the self-absorption of Hollywood stars, not least their affectation.

Until eighteen months ago Eddie Thomas and Gwen Harrison were a couple showered with success, both on the silver screen and in private, but since Gwen left Eddie for a fiery Spaniard, Hector, it has been downhill all the way. Both are in dire need of a new hit, so when their last film together is to be launched, the studio's PR man Lee Phillips persuades them to play the perfect couple at the studio's press junket.

Studio boss Kingman is set on making Eddie and Gwen the centre of attention at the event, for he has no film! The eccentric director Hal Weidmann will only let the film be shown once both the press and the film people are assembled.

Lee has more than enough on his hands keeping the two stars, who are not on particularly good terms, in check. He gets help from Gwen's personal assistant, her sister Kiki, who unbeknown to her sister has long had a soft spot for her brother-in-law. Naturally it can only end with the spurned husband waking up to his adorable sister-in-law, but do genuine feelings stand a chance in this media circus, where surface and white lies are normally the order of the day?