Ticket tout Andy Garcia has a girlfriend (Andie MacDowell) who wants to run a restaurant (but can't pronounce cordon bleu), helps a pregnant colleague who gets hooked on drugs and finds his life changed for the worse by protection thugs. That's the recipe for a low-life stew that proves slow in the stirring and only interests intermittently. Luckily Garcia, who also wrote much of the film's music, never stops moving and the upbeat ending does send you away with a smile.