I love this film because both the movie and Rebecca De Mornay are bright, breezy, and fun. It's a Cinderella story turned on it's ear with a blue collar Prince Charming (Billy played by Vincent Spano) barely able to stay afloat in contemporary middle income lifestyle, but stable enough to help lift a lovely jailbird Princess (Robin played by De Mornay) out of both a physical and personal prison, but this being a contemporary story she controls her own destiny and plots her own path. An evil politician (played by Frank Langella) adds to the fun as does some laughs that springs from realistic situations. At the heart is an old-fashioned romance. We know from the start that Billy and Robin are meant for each other. The language and tasteful love scenes that give the film an R-rating are overshadowed by the entire atmosphere of the film which more accurately should have been awarded a PG-13 rating (this is not Hand That Rocks the Cradle or Risky Business). Despite themes of feminism and romance, there is enough fun to keep the guys interested too, most notably the sexy but ever wholesome De Mornay.

Roger Vadim's remake of his own film opens with a ridiculous jail break from what appears to be a soccer mum in a mullet and tracksuit and leads to a number of other embarrassing sequences that are at least saved with an early nude scene from Rebecca DeMornay. The moment is quickly ruined by a music sequence or however else Vadim over idealises his leading lady. It turns out this scene indicates DeMornay's desire to escape from prison and pursue her realistic dream of being a famous rock and roll star. The whole experience starts getting humorous when DeMornay is sent back to prison and arranges to marry a young carpenter to beat parole on the advice of Frank Langella, a candidate running for governor of New Mexico that ran into DeMornay during her failed escape from prison. Despite the obvious predictability of the love triangle that film will pursue the film is redeemed from plenty of comedic moments thanks to the strong performances from DeMornay and a whole cast of unknown actors. It turns out irresponsible screw ups are a great source of comedy. However, plenty of embarrassing moments continue to show up in the film including a cringe worthy disrobing of some random actress who rocked up to work in granny panties and a nauseating navel gazing Langella. It is pretty depressing seeing how easily the men in this film can be led just because someone is attractive regardless what a terrible human being said person is. I think the film is meant to be a farce, it's all very light hearted with some tacky New Romantic 80s pop thrown in.

A big old glorious old fashioned bomb, the type that you enjoy laughing ass because it is so ridiculously over-the-top and so badly acted. Glossy trash. Yes, Rebecca De Mornay and Vincent Spank are absolutely gorgeous to look at, but the on-screen heat doesn't mean that they generate anything remotely resembling art. She seduces her way into an early parole, marrying Spano simply so she can get out of prison and set her sights on a candidate for governor, Frank Langella.

The audience knows everything they need to know about her in the very first scene, jumping off a roof onto a garbage truck so she can escape from prison, then forcing herself into Langella's limousine who promptly turns around and takes her back. She wants to make a deal with electrician Spano for a year-long marriage so she can get her parole, but the dumb lug thinks that they are going to have a real marriage which she promptly dismisses.

After this, she sets her sights on his brother Donovan Leitch whom she thinks could get her a singing contract. Only problem is that she can't sing. All she can do is scheme and manipulate, a completely dangerous sociopath who should come with a warning sign to other men. Looking absolutely ridiculous in a hideous mullet, De Mornay is crude looking and crude acting, and her character is totally unappealing.

Spano is naive beyond belief, allowing himself to be manipulated by good spontaneous sex then thinking he can change her, making himself look dumber in every scene he appears in. It's the fault of the script and direction that he gives such a bad performance while De Mornay never gives her character any believable layers. She's just painful to watch, no threat to Kathleen Turner in "Body Heat" or Sharon Stone in "Basic Instinct". The script tries to make us think that De Mornay can retained, but she's a shrew beyond reform. The only good things here are Frank Langella and Judith Chapman ("The Young and the Restless" and half a dozen other soaps),with the biggest disaster the direction of Roger Vadim.