You really want to cheer for a good old-fashioned romantic movie like this one: the trouble is, though, that it's just too sappy for its own good. Christian Slater's a florist (thus the title) smitten with smooth, smart merchant banker Mary Stuart Masterson; she has problems, though, that mean the path to true love will be anything but the bed of roses of the title. The stars are both good, if not perhaps as charismatic as you would expect; but these are underwritten roles that never make the deep cut into our emotions that this sort of thing requires if we're to sniffle at the inevitable happy ending. In support, Pamela Segall shines as Masterson's lacking-in-social-graces friend.

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