There's a lot of sincerity if not many laughs in this story of a 26-year-old aspiring doctor (Ray Liotta) and his brain-damaged brother, played by Tom Hulce with one silver tooth rather uneasily underlining the idiot image. But, though the story is gloomy and slow at the start, director Robert M Young has knitted a good pattern out of it by the finish, thanks to a subplot that works wonders at bolstering the basic storyline, as Liotta battles with himself over the decision to leave Pittsburgh and Hulce (whose garbage-truck money has put Liotta through college) and pass his finals in far-away California. Jamie Lee Curtis is in sterling form as Liotta's girlfriend and Todd Graff puts in a good showing as Hulce's drug-dealing, hair-slicking workmate. There's also a dog called O'Malley, whose talent at heading a ball some struggling soccer clubs could surely use.

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