(rated PG-13, 98 mins.) Heather Graham plays a young Bohemian style SoHo woman who, convinced she can save her marriage (secured by only a tattooed wedding band), drives 2,000 miles west on a comic adventure to track down her wayward husband (Luke Wilson).
Along the way she has close calls with a pair of highway robbers, a Mexican witchdoctor and a Don Juan type seducer (Goran Visnji) who steals the movie with his seductive lines. As Graham stakes out her husband’s trailer from her car, Visnji joins her on his lawnchair just outside the driver’s side window.
While Graham’s morals are higher stakes in this story than previous roles as both Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers or the Rollergirl in “Boogie Nights”, she shows lateral acting choices in character depth. She remains ditzy despite the fact that her character does a little inner searching in this crazy hubby chase of a story. Casey Affleck in a supporting role as her weird brother is not much to marvel at either. What starts out as a cute movie ends up being a movie about a stalker girl who is determined to test their vows of marital bliss, despite the fact he doesn’t want or could care less about her. And, after a while, neither can we.