Cameron Crowe's second film as a director is very sweet, ahead of the curve, full of nice things, though doesn't quite come together, as he himself realised. It's about friends who live in an apartment block though they pull away to Kyra Sedgwick who doesn't live in the house, it has Sheila Kelly and Bridget Fonda playing a similar type (looking for a man), doesn't give Fonda enough to do, defintely doesn't give enough to do to that friend with the hat who's in all these scenes (Jim True-Frost).
The support cast is full of future names like Ally Walker, Jeremy Piven, plus famous in other sphere names like Tim Burton and Peal Jam.
What changes could he have made? I think given it more center and focus - make it about people who live in the building properly. Move Segwick into the building. Have her share with Fonda. You'd have to lose some funny lines and moments but it would give a greater feeling of family.
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