Several couples encounter love lost and found in LA in a star-studded but sometimes boring talk show that's so nicely rounded off at the end that it still sends you away with a good feeling. Despite the fact that it's essential to the plot, however, the film is still broken up into too many fragments - destroying the rhythm of its individual stories. Handed the odd good barb, Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands also have the weakest of the dialogue as they struggle to come to terms with his impending death and the almost-affair he had 20 years before. Faring better are Angelina Jolie and Ryan Phillippe as unlucky-in-love young clubbers, Ellen Burstyn as a mother whose son (Jay Mohr) is dying from AIDS - in the film's truest section - Gillian Anderson as a theatre director dedicated to her work and Dennis Quaid as a man who unloads his fantasies on lonely women. Anthony Edwards and Madeleine Stowe are more or less lost in the shuffle. If you can stay awake through the dull bits, the end is worth hanging on for.