This is a boy-meets-girl story with a difference, though not one for the cynical or hard-hearted. Waitress Marisa Tomei is a loser in love. Loner dishwasher Christian Slater is a loser in life: an orphan convinced by convent custodians that his diseased heart is that of a baboon. It's inevitable, of course, that they should end up together, even though Slater is, by most people's standards, a bit of a weirdo. His habit of following Tomei home (and, it turns out, sometimes getting into her house and watching her sleep) pays off when he saves her from rape on a wintry night. It's obvious from developments that their subsequent relationship can't have too happy an ending, but director Tony Bill lets us down easy on the tears and, if the story will be too silly and simplistic for some, at least Slater and Tomei, two of the most talented of Hollywood's younger stars in the early Nineties, give it 101 per cent.

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