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where she tries to have a baby with various strangers. These scenes reminded me strongly of a movie called The Bachelor, where a young man can get hundreds of millions of dollars but has to wed by his thirtieth birthday. However, even though they would be filthy rich and he is attractive, he was turned down left and right for comedic affect. I did not buy that nonsense one bit and I did not buy the bulk of this plot, either.

Heather Graham prowls London looking for a man, any man, to give her the seed of life. In real life men would be climbing over each other for the honor but in the fantasy world set up in this movie she has more trouble getting lucky than a poor, witless, unattractive male would!

London as viewed through the prism of this movie is comprised almost entirely of thieves, infertile men, gay men and celibate men. She gets rejected, robbed and then rejected again. I wanted to buy into it but the absurdity of it all made me keep thinking, "Yeah right."

Does her boyfriend come back at the eleventh hour and try and reconcile? Do they try furiously to make the baby before the clock strikes twelve? Couldn't you see all of this coming a mile away?

This is an instance where I think the actors far exceeded the script. The plot was predictable, derivative and anything but funny. In the end the only funny thing to me was that the producers of this movie actually thought we would buy people not wanting to sleep with Heather Graham. If they had cast an unattractive girl in the role they might have had something, but instead they went for a physical goddess and created a boring, one note lie. One and a half stars out of four based solely on the strength of the performances.

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