Failing Head Over Heels In Beantown
The heroine of Malia Scotch Marmo’s screenplay is the headstrong Renata Bella (Holly Hunter), a member of a Boston Italian family so close-knit she still crawls into her parents’ bed for comfort. (Danny Aiello and Gena Rowlands are the parents). Jilted by her beau, the intense Renata heads for the Caribbean to sell time shares in condos, and there she falls for Sam Sharpe (Richard Dreyfuss), a rich, vulgar and altogether overbearing white-haired salesman whose romantic intensity matches her own....