The Reel Thing

How many millions of dollars does it take before you can overlook a major drinking problem?

Is there a better basis for a long-lasting relationship than a false sense of nostalgia fueled by a case of bourbon? Not according to Mavis Gary.

True, Cher and Josh are not related, or even step-related any longer. But they still feel more like brother and sister than boyfriend and girlfriend, which makes them becoming boyfriend and girlfriend a bit icky.

Ferris has declared his love for Sloane and his desire to marry her. Is he for real or is this just another tricky situation that Ferris will have to wriggle out of later?

Considered one of the all-time romance classics, yet it ironically features a couple that doesn’t make it. So we are hardly breaking new ground here by saying that there is no way these two should end up together. What we can’t understand is how they ever started.

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We have to wonder – can these two really make it? He looks about as corn-fed middle America as you can get, and she’s a New York Italian princess. What happens when he brings her home for dinner to his God-fearing, church-going parents and they find out she was married to a mafia hit man? Who was killed by another mafia hit man?

We admit it – we didn’t think too much of Jerry and Dorothy’s chances in the beginning. We were with Dorothy’s disapproving sister Laurel on this one: Jerry Maguire is a slick good-looking salesman that would be just as happy with a gardening tool. But as time wore on these two started to grow on us.