SnoopyStyle Jack Gable (John Candy) is the writer of a successful soap opera in NYC. He's in love with manipulative diva Laura Claybourne (Emma Samms). Louise (Mariel Hemingway) is the bumbling new actress. The Sherwoods are interfering producers looking to kill off Laura's character. He gets hit on the head and finds himself in the soap opera in Ashford Falls Community Hospital after a car accident. He discovers that he can manipulate the characters by rewriting the story.John Candy's ample amount of charms can't salvage this movie. The problem is that the soap opera is fake and the only compelling character is Candy. It also doesn't help that the best he has to work with in this movie is Mariel Hemingway. At least, she's game even if she's not that able. This is a miss.

gwnightscream John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, Dylan Baker, Charles Rocket, Andrea Thompson and David Rasche star in this 1991 comedy. The late, great, Candy plays Jack Gable, a writer who gets into an accident and dreams he's on his soap opera, "Beyond Our Dreams." He plays along as wealthy tycoon, Jack Gates and begins writing his way through town trying to impress rich woman, Rachel Hedison (Samms). Jack also meets, Janet Dubois (Hemingway), a botanist whom he finds romance with. Jack eventually comes back to reality and tries to better the show. The late, Burr (Perry Mason) plays Rachel's father and industrialist, Carter, Baker (Spider-Man 2) plays Carter's son, Blake who begins having side effects from an experimental drug, the late, Rocket (Dumb and Dumber) plays Carter's other son, Ty who has one eye, Thompson (NYPD Blue) plays nurse, Helen Caldwell who tries to win the affections of doctor, Paul Kirkwood (Rasche) whom is engaged to Rachel and Robert Wagner (Hart to Hart) also appears as the actual, Jack Gates. This is a good comedy I've always enjoyed, Candy & the cast are great and I recommend it.

trpdean This is a wonderful idea for a movie - the dueling attempts by writers to change the course of the narrative of the movie itself - one is inside the movie, the other outside. I found the movie hysterical. John Candy is excellent, the lines of Raymond Burr hysterical, Mariel Hemingway charming and sweet and fun, and Emma Samms luscious. I truly don't understand the few who made negative comments - it's one of the 3 or 4 funniest movies of the 1990s - the humor is more physical, but is otherwise on a par with Sleepless in Seattle, While You were Sleeping, When Harry Met Sally - but it doesn't have the serious side in those movies that moved many.

Matija Trost ...unfortunatelly not that great realization. All in all, throughout the movie i have a feeling that it could be done a lot more with a first-class producer and a actors, though John Candies is quite allright, but sadly nothing more. But, despite that, the comedy brings a few great laughs and that's why i give this movie 5 out of 10.