kkcharis it is such a pretty story, just like a refreshing lemon sprite! i had worked with mentally ill people, it also touching me in the way lulu struck for her identity and life. sometime, under a megalopolis, who is insane who is not, it is difficult to judge! we all need someone to give us a hug and love! the power of love! thanks lulu to help Ben and his wife to release their innermost feelings, "can heal but couldn't self-heal", lulu became their angel between two professionals! open up yourself to face each other, there is no other better way than this to deal with relationship! don't forget your dream, the rainbow is there! the psychiatric institute, the professional tone in questioning, the hallucination, something between realistic or false! who can ever say it absolutely correct! the last part of the film is so moving, my eyes wet and nearly tear come!

vchimpanzee Lulu has had mental problems for years, but she is relatively stable and living in the Valley View home. Ben is a writer for an Emmy-nominated sci-fi TV series, married to Claire, a psychiatrist.Lulu gave up for adoption the son she had with Ben 16 years ago, though she never told Ben she was pregnant. She knows the boy's name is Martin and that he was adopted by the Ellsworths, a college professor and his wife living in Madison, Wisconsin. With his birthday coming up, she believes this is the perfect opportunity to take that road trip she wanted to back when they were dating. She sneaks out of the home and meets Ben, who is reluctant to drive from Los Angeles to Wisconsin. But Lulu gets a friend at the home to pretend to be the boy's father on the phone, so Ben thinks the meeting has been arranged.When Claire finds out what Ben has done, she is furious and decides to follow him. On the airplane, she tells her story to a stranger. She seems like such a witch, but it turns out she and Ben lost a son to leukemia, and she does show a vulnerable side.Ben and Lulu have a fun trip, with a few problems because of Lulu's mental state. Well, anyway, it's fun for us. Lulu does take off her clothes when a motel has a pool, and I think certain body parts were blurred on TV. Ben starts out uptight but ends up enjoying the experience.It is fortunate that Claire followed Ben and Lulu. She is able to provide a lot of help, especially when she finds out the Ellsworths don't know Lulu and Ben are coming. She really is a caring person, despite what we have seen so far.The meeting with the Ellsworths is pleasant enough at first, but it's not too hard to figure out what will happen. However, everything has a way of working out.Melanie Griffith is so wonderful as Lulu. Such a sweet girl, and so funny and easy to like, though somewhat troubled. Most of the leading actors give good performances. There are a couple of disturbing scenes, including one with blood from one of the several flashbacks of Lulu's earlier relationship with Ben.This is a cute but quirky adventure.

PGMcCullough Where to begin? Ah yes - In the role of the novelist: Patrick Swayze....You can tell he is intellectual, because he made the daring character choice of wearing glasses.Fortunately for Swayze, Melanie Griffith was cast opposite, making him Olivier by comparison.Her character - Lulu - begs to be strangled. I seriously scraped my knuckles trying to reach through the screen to choke her. She's supposed to be this schizo - a tender, profound soul with an impulsive, child-like disposition - but it comes off as the most affected crap you've ever seen.It especially drove me crazy as I live in New York surrounded by NYU girls that are equally desperate to seem quirky.If you see this on television, don't watch it. Turn off the TV, get up, leave your house, wait AT LEAST 3 hours (Just to be safe - these movies can really get stretched out with commercials), and then kill yourself.

sliye_uk1 This was another one of the DVDs that I got when I purchased the DVD player and as before I watched any of the films that were there I thought oh great these are going to be a bunch of rubbish films just thrown in to make the company look like it gives good offers! I'm a big fan of Patrick anyways and thats what made me watch this first. When it first started I thought hmm this is interesting pretty slow moving but after that I thought it was a great well written moving story.In the end I felt great that things had finally worked out for Lulu and that Ben had written finally a good book about there time together on the road trip to see there son. Yeah great film would say that everyone should watch it!