livi313 I thought the first half of the movie was fantastic; the use of color, the eccentricity of Frankie, the main character, and just the general way in which this "conventional" romantic comedy added its own ticks and quirks (with an infusion of Frank Sinatra) held so much promise.From this first half I was prepared to absolutely fall in love with this movie. The leads were charismatic and the chemistry was good and everything seemed in place. But everything starts unraveling in the second half; things happen too fast, things seem too absolute, emotions are strange and constantly changing (telling someone that you don't want a relationship with her... and then sleeping with your head in her lap and kissing her/holding her hand on the way home...) and things generally don't seem to progress rationally.still, it was worth watching just for the artistic novelty and the amazing first half.

cineasten89 It is such a movie that gets you fell good. Maybe mostly a movie for girls, but yet a great and excellent movie. Ione Skye plays Frankie, who is about to leave in one week for her acting dreams in L.A., who wants to meet the man with blue eyes. And in comes David, new in town and who happens to be employed in the Café Blue Eyes which Frankie's uncle Leo runs. It becomes a crazy week together with Frankie's best friend Allison (Jennifer Aniston), Frankie's gay cousin and uncle Leo. Fixed by the decision to catch David, Frankie does everything for trying to get David to fall in her... but it is really a hard task as he has a girlfriend. A fine story of love, meaningful quotes, insomnia, dreams and true friendship. In addition, this movie also have excellent acting, beautiful ending and as a result, this movie gives hope.

Claudio Carvalho In San Francisco, Frankie (Ione Skye) is a dreamer aspiring to be an actress. She has been insomniac for seventeen years, since she lost her parents in a car accident. She was raised by her uncle Leo (Seymor Cassel) and works in his bar, and both are great fans of Frank Sinatra. Her cousin Rob is gay, but afraid to assume his sexual option to his father Leo. Her best friend is Allison (Jennifer Aniston), who is also an aspirant of actress. Frankie and Allison will move in a couple of days to New York. The new-hire David Shrader (Mackenzie Astin) is a blocked writer who is not able to write anything new, and Frankie has a crush on him. However, David has a girl-friend (Molly) for three years, loves her and is faithful to her. Frankie tries to seduce her twin-soul David anyway. The name of this movie could be: `How to Steal Molly's Boy-Friend in Ninety Minutes'. The story is very talky and full of citations, but it has not convinced me. I found it very silly. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): `Alma de Poeta, Olhos de Sinatra' (`Soul of Poet, Eyes of Sinatra')

Jamie Blanks I bought this Movie on VHS recently over here in England, i usually buy dvd's, but sometimes find cheap movies on vhs hard to resist sometimes!!! Anyway when i first started to watch this movie, it was in black & white & my first thoughts were OH NO MY TAPE IS BUGGERED!!! But luckily about 15 minutes in or so it changed to colour, i had no idea that this movie started out in black & white, maybe it should have said colour & black & white on the box!!! I found this movie a bit hard to get into at first, then i got a little more into it eventually!!! This movie had a lot of VERY annoying jazz music on the soundtrack early on & this nearly put me off completely, it seemed too loud too, i found it way too distracting, it was nearly as loud as the dialogue!!!Apart from those glitches the story was ok, a bit different to other Romantic Comedies, it almost felt like this was based on a play, as there's very little in the way of action!!! It's all set mainly indoors too, apart from a scene on the beach, where Ione Skye is walking & talking with the guy she has a thing for (In a big way) i forget his name right this second!!! Basically though you no the way it's gonna end up before the conclusion!!! But since it's pretty different to other Romantic Movies, it's worth a watch, but it ain't exactly fast paced either, so it takes a bit of patience!!! It's best if you watch it in bed late at night, otherwise if your anything like me, you will not be able to keep still for the 90 minutes or so running time!!!