This came on right after Idlewild. An odd line-up but I suppose it worked. This one is definitely better.
The basic plot is that Mirabelle (Claire Danes) has moved to LA from Vermont and is a bit lonely because all she does is work at Saks in Beverly Hills (at the glove counter no less) and goes home to her cat who hides all the time and makes a drawing every six months or so. All at once two men come into her life, Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman) and Ray Porter (Steve Martin). The former is a slacker artist of sorts who has all the wrong moves and the latter is a rich older man who knows all the right moves. The trouble is that while Ray provides Mirabelle with a stable relationship and financial security, he refuses to allow himself to get close to her. Jeremy, on the other hand, can't give her anything but love. While Ray draws away, Jeremy betters himself for Mirabelle.
It's a very sweet love story (with just a touch of the bitter) in the end. One slight misstep, I thought, it a bit of an oddly placed anti-depressants story in the middle. I'm not exactly sure why it didn't fare better when it first came out.
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