I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

The film centres on a mechanic and a Princeton doctoral candidate who fall in love thanks to the candidate's uncle Albert Einstein played by Walter Matthau. Garnering generally mixed to negative reviews it failed to draw interest among film studios resulting in a straight-to-DVD release in January 2009. She and Quaid separated and their divorce became final on July 16 2001.

In 1995 the Time critic Richard Corliss called her "the current soul of romantic comedy".