And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

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".