Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan We use euphemisms! cant decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna. Anna herself cant decide between Dan and honest-but-thuggish You re bloody gorgeous! doctor Larry. The film, as Tarantino might put it, puts the four leading characters in a box and then takes them apart.

Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan We use euphemisms! cant decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna. Anna herself cant decide between Dan and honest-but-thuggish You re bloody gorgeous! doctor Larry. The film, as Tarantino might put it, puts the four leading characters in a box and then takes them apart.