Somewhere lurking deep within this feature-length TV movie about obsessive love is a very good one-hour play. Unfortunately, it's been spun-out to the length required for possible cinema release of Screen One films, such as 'Truly, Madly, Deeply' and 'The Object of Beauty'. As a result, unlike the plot's whirlwind love affair (that turns out to have sinister overtones), the script merely meanders along and has its actors thinking too much rather than reacting. The effect is rather like wading through syrup. Judith Scott, getting her first starring role after Mike Leigh's 'High Hopes' and the BAFTA winning drama 'News Hounds', is touchingly vulnerable as the busy woman's magazine executive who yearns for true love and thinks she's found it with Sean Bean's seductively handsome stranger. And he manages to stay just the right side of madness, saving the production from plunging into melodrama. Whatever its faults, it should make you think the next time a tall, handsome stranger makes moves to sweep you off your feet...


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