Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

stephanlinsenhoff As child we all have a 'Michael'. Especially when life is difficult. Here it was, and still is twenty years later, the ego centered mother and now Janes ego centered fiancé Hugh. The little girl Jane is heartbroken at Tiffany's elevator when Michael, her little 'imaginary' friend, leaves: "I have no choice. So are the rules." It is time to leave and return to the magic world, for the next task. From now on the girl Jane must go on alone. But: general rules can sometimes be sidestepped - what this movie and the book tells. Why returns Michael? He does not know. And the irritated Jane does not believe that he is her childhoods 'imaginary friend'. But the forgotten yesterdays details lets her accept: Micheal is her 'imaginary friend' from yesterday. Michael tells Janes mother: "You haven't changed." And Janes successful ego-driven fiancé Hugh is unable to see what is behind the 'organized' Jane: "She is organized." Michael is her glasses, letting her see that Hugh sees only those parts of her that match his own style of life. Michael helps her with the details of her coming wedding with Hugh: the right wedding dress, the right flowers, the wedding cake: all those details, needed for a wedding. While Hugh is absent, not realizing that Michael does what he should do as her future husband. Jane realizes this in church: turns and rushes off. Sitting in her now useless wedding dress, chosen by Michael, on a bench by herself, alone, ready for the final moment of the happy end. And it happens. Michael returns: "When you where a little girl I came to you as you needed me. I came back because I need you. I don't exist without you." Them in the magic world knew this all the way but had him to discover the truth himself. And Jane: "What about the rules?" Michael answering: "The rules are made to be broken."

karenthomas61 Delightful premise. Eric Winter does a very good job playing an innocent child-like spirit in an adult body. He plays those scenes with zest and energy. The script has some cute scenes and dialogue based on that premise. Eric Winter and Alyssa Milano have excellent chemistry as best friends.There are some clichés in this film: The fiancé is a selfish and vain man, who does not appreciate the protagonist's true self. The protagonist gave up on her dreams and took a safe boring path through life. Not every scene works but still a pleasant film.Stockard Channing is a great performer, but this role does not use her superlative talent.Alyssa Milano plays down her sexiness to play a regular career girl. She is quite good in this role.

dewdrop519 I thought this was an enjoyable movie. Yes, the ending was fairly predictable, as most of these type movies are, but I enjoyed it. I didn't know this was based on a book and evidently it doesn't follow it very closely and most people who've read it didn't care for the movie. If you don't know about the book, the movie is good. I did notice several goofs (I'm not giving away anything at all about the storyline, so I don't consider these spoilers): in a scene where Jane goes to a restaurant to find Michael, she speaks with the hostess and as the camera flips between the two women, Jane's scarf is around her neck and then hanging down. It goes back and forth about 5 times during the conversation. Also, the previews for the movie show parts of scenes that don't actually happen in the movie. The preview of Michael in front of the cab has the cab driver saying "we can all see you" and he never says that in the actual movie. Also, the preview shows a brief clip of Jane and Michael dancing 'the robot' in a bar, and in the movie, she doesn't get up until he is done dancing.

edwagreen Reality and fantasy are the major themes here which seem to connect. Imagine that her imaginary boyfriend leaves her at age 10, and resurfaces 20 years later when she is about to wed a Broadway legend, who is also Hollywood bound. The guy is a hunk and a writer to the bargain as well.When imaginary friend Michael resurfaces after all these years, he can be seen by everyone and immediately there is jealousy between the couple as Michael intervenes.This is a tale of true love, gone awry and with the old theme of following your basic instincts.Stockard Channing co-stars as the successful mother of Jane, who was abandoned by her own husband years before.The story is really somewhat hard to take. The last scene where Jane walks out at her wedding reminded me of 1967's "The Graduate." At least, that was reality based. We might have even needed Mrs. Robinson to heat things up.