 Sam
(MATTHEW BRODERICK), an astronomer from a small town in
the midwest, is a naive romantic. Maggie (MEG RYAN), a
photographer and collage artist from New York, is a
worldly-wise cynic. Strangers and polar opposites, what
they have in common is an obsession with the respective
lovers who've just jilted them and are now blissfully
sharing a romantic apartment in Soho.
 Sam will do anything to
win back Linda (KELLY PRESTON), his childhood sweetheart
and only love. Maggie will do anything to get revenge on
Anton (TCHEKY KARYO), her charming, accomplished French
lover and ex-fiance.
So when Sam and
Maggie encounter each other in New York, each spying on
the same "love nest," each watching the romance
unfolding there with envy and rage, an unlikely alliance
is formed. Soon, Maggie convinces a reluctant Sam that
the only way to get Linda back is to humiliate Anton and
destroy his life.
 As Linda and Anton,
blissfully unaware, pursue their romance, Sam and Maggie
embark on a diabolically funny scheme of infiltration and
revenge. Yet their plans unexpectedly begin going awry as
the relationships between the four characters evolve in
ways none of them could ever have imagined. |