A popular mid-Nineties take on the US teenage scene, this is quite fun for 40 minutes or more, but decreasingly less so once heroine Alicia Silverstone gets clued on to puppy love.

This air-headed rich girl is the envy of her set - 'The columns of my house,' she coos, 'date all the way back to 1972'.

You tremble for her future and that of the country. Never mind, she's always ready with a cutting riposte.

"Do you know what time it is?" barks corporate lawyer daddy (Dan Hedaya), after one particularly late distress call.

Alicia pouts and furrows her brow: "Watches don't really go with my outfit, daddy," she complains.

There's no comeback to that.