A very slight Hollywood fable about a struggling screenwriter (Albert Brooks) whose crumbling career has just hit rock bottom when a wealthy friend (Jeff Bridges) advises him to consult a Muse (Sharon Stone) who happens to have stepped straight off the slopes of Mount Olympus. The Muse does provide Brooks with inspiration, and his wife (Andie MacDowell) with the stimulus to start a catering career. In the process she decimates their bank balance with her whimsical demands and finally moves in, causing a plaintive Brooks to dub her The Muse Who Came to Dinner. The portrait of the film capital, where everyone has insecurities that surface at the drop of an unintended innuendo, occasionally bites, and the film, with its guest shots by famous directors (James Cameron is advised to stay away from water) and the odd star is a-muse-ing enough, without looking likely to set Britain's box offices alight.