The Morgans have problems. Difficulty in conceiving leads to marital infidelity, which in turn leads to separation. This pales into insignificance, however, when they witness a mob murder and have to enter witness protection which takes them out of their comfort xone in New York and dumps them into the wilds of Wyoming. And, of course, Meryl Morgan can't manage to keep off the phone, which gives the killer a lead on tracking them down.
This film is a fusion of 3 distinct story elements: accidental witnesses on the run, dysfunctional relationship, and fish out of water city dwellers away from civilisation. These 3 disparate elements mesh well in a feelgood romantic comedy in which the Morgans never really feel as if they are in a huge amount of jeopardy.
The script is light and frothy and feeds Hugh Grant's urbane wry sarcasm nicely. Sarah Jessica Parker fared less well with a character who, for much of the movie, was at best deeply irritating. Sam Elliott was, for once, intelligible through his moustache, playing a man of few words and, for me, Mary Steenbergen stole the film with a warm, sympathetic and funny performance as a down to earth country woman who loves guns. And is it my imagination, or does she just keep looking better as she gets older?
There's no great substance here, just a fairly familiar yarn about fairly likable people dealing with a mixture of problems, and there was a fair amount of audible laughter in a fairly sparsely occupied auditorium. I quite liked it.
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