A very amusing comedy about a struggling waitress who has the ambition to become a country singer. Lesley Ann Warren a sparkling in this, but unfortunately she's upstairs by an outrageous featured cast including a handsome leading man, Peter Coyote, an over-the-top best friend, Swoozie Kurtz, and a gregarious agent, Anthony Zerbe. She also has a teenage daughter played by a young Julia Roberts, a teenager who leaves for college early in the film and is MIA for most of the time, returning with a crazy boyfriend. Warren, who had already sung on film and on stage before, is quite pretty and talented, a basically decent woman, bravely standing up for her daughter when the abusive boyfriend shows back up.
There are a lot of amusing moments concerning the characters surrounding her, and one of the funniest scenes is a football obsessed man who doesn't even hear his wife announcing that she's taking the kids and leaving him while the big game is on. It's a likable film with mostly really likeable characters, romantic for Warren and Coyote (oh that speaking voice!), but their performances are overshadowed by Kurtz and. Zerbe, as well as cameos from Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson as themselves. The music sequences are bouncy and fun, and even non country-western fans will find themselves toe-tapping. A nice little crowd pleaser with a decent plot but it's the slice-of-life moments that make it more memorable.
There are a lot of amusing moments concerning the characters surrounding her, and one of the funniest scenes is a football obsessed man who doesn't even hear his wife announcing that she's taking the kids and leaving him while the big game is on. It's a likable film with mostly really likeable characters, romantic for Warren and Coyote (oh that speaking voice!), but their performances are overshadowed by Kurtz and. Zerbe, as well as cameos from Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson as themselves. The music sequences are bouncy and fun, and even non country-western fans will find themselves toe-tapping. A nice little crowd pleaser with a decent plot but it's the slice-of-life moments that make it more memorable.