Another of those talky, quirky Woody Allen films that will delight his fans and bore his detractors. Woody and gallery owner Helena Bonham Carter are married and adopt a baby boy. Six years later Woody, obsessed with the boy's brightness, hunts down the natural mother, expecting a college professor - and finds instead a 5ft 10in hooker (Oscar-winning Mira Sorvino) with boobs as big as her permanent grin. Natch, Woody plans to reform the girl, sorts out a boxing farmer to court her, and buys off her pimp, with tickets he can get through his sportswriting job. But, as the Greek chorus which accompanies the action warns, there's trouble in store. Helena is succumbing to the slimy charms of gallery partner Peter Weller and Woody looks like missing out all round. Subsequent developments assume the kind of circular motif we saw in Woody's Crimes and Misdemeanours, before all the pieces of the jigsaw fall into place. Were it not for the increasingly potty chorus, this would run like a radio play: you could close your eyes and not miss a thing.

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