The moral of this Marty-style romance is: never co-star with 70-year-old actresses making a comeback. They will wipe the floor with you. This should be John Candy's film and, in a straight romantic role, the heavyweight comedian (who died in 1994) had probably never been better. But it's Maureen O'Hara as the overbearing Irish mother who has stifled his romantic chances, who walks away with the film. Candy is a plump cop who falls for a mortician's plain daughter Ally Sheedy. But his own concern for his mother (her opinion and her welfare) seemingly dooms the romance from the start. There's not much to the ensuing story (despite a very strong cast including Anthony Quinn, James Belushi, Milo O'Shea and Macaulay Culkin) and some of it is pretty silly: but it does contain perhaps the best performance of O'Hara's career. Unlucky one, John.

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