A Smile Like Yours

There can be little doubt that erstwhile E! quipster Greg Kinnear was voted "Most Adorable Smile" in high school. In A Smile like Yours he meets his match in Lauren Holly. Together they play a lovely, smiley couple, she a perfume designer, he an engineer (he's in elevators). Sometimes they're both in elevators, applying aromatic aphrodisiacs in full view of benign, smiling construction workers. It's all so very lovely that flowers could sing, and the sun could turn into a big smiley face. Naturally there's Conflict: his pesky infertility (his sperm are "lazy swimmers"), her manic, maniacal attempts to get herself in the family way, and the advent of a Dark Lady all threaten to turn smiles to frowns. Lovely, the film seems to say, can get ugly.

The adorable Kinnear is not doing himself any favors with overblown sitcoms like this. He needs to find the real thing -- some Must-See-TV vehicle for his winning grin and ironically arched brow. There are funny moments here, but unless you're prepared to pay a buck a laugh, wait for the video, or the series. At the Holiday, Showcase, and Tri-Boro cinemas.

-- Chris Wright