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...renovations, begun in September, aimed to expand the old Grille from a part-time burger joint to a caf??© open seven days a week...
...brûlée with a teaspoon. Home-schooled by neurotic, hugging-averse parents, she grows up painfully shy and enclosed in her own fantasy world. Unfortunately, her adult life doesn’t seem much better. She works as a waitress in a quintessentially Parisian caf??©, where the regulars comprise a dysfunctional family of their own. But one day she discovers a box of toys in her apartment and resolves to find its owner. This sets her on a quest to improve the lives of her neighbors, which ranges from humbling the arrogant to playing matchmaker...
Cambridge is disarmingly bizarre. On the surface, there’s nothing particularly out of the ordinary about it—except if you count the Barnes & Noble masquerading as the Coop, or the Dunkin Donuts that doubles as the Eliot Street Caf??©, or the Warburton’s Caf??© that’s really Au Bon Pain. The odd thing about Cambridge is how subtle its oddness really is. Start with the employees at the Coop. I once had a cashier who performed the entire check-out process in complete silence while staring straight at me, examined...
...know that they hit it off because they spend lots of time staring at each other wistfully; we know that the day is life-changing because of all the established magical moments of which it is comprised. The two share a festive chocolatey drink at a trendy caf??©, Serendipity (which, incidentally, has already had its close-up in George Clooney’s One Fine Day); they stroll through Central Park, flocks of pigeons flapping out of their path; they ice-skate at night, snowflakes from a fake-snow-making-machine gently alighting upon their shoulders...
...plot moves along primarily through a series of coincidences and near-misses (she walks out of the caf??©, he walks in!) that had my audience guffawing gently near the beginning, groaning by the end. I’m not certain whether the groans were a reaction to the shamelessness of the plot contrivances, or whether the audience simply wanted to see Beckinsale and Cusack together already. They are, admittedly, really cute together. Beckinsale lends earnestness to a somewhat flimsy character, and Cusack, we’ve talked about him. But if you came to see sparks fly between...