Picture Perfect

Well no one told her it was going to be this way. Kate Mosley (Jennifer Aniston) is a bright and beautiful advertising director, but her male boss won't promote her because she "still lives like she is in college" with no family or financial obligations that would make her beholden to the company. Discrimination suit, right? Not exactly; our Kate recruits a wedding photographer (Jay Mohr) to pose as her fiancé, and if you've a romantic bone in your bod, you can guess what develops. In the Friends big screen sweepstakes, only Courtney Cox (Scream) and Marcel the monkey have successfully made the transition. However, Aniston is ravishing and Mohr (Tom Cruise's nemesis in Jerry Maguire) is amiable as the game stranger who falls in love with her. More interesting are Illeana Douglas, as Kate's more career-savvy best friend, and Kevin Bacon, as the office lothario who finds Kate's sudden unattainability a turn-on. Director Glenn Gordon Caron here, unfortunately, embraces convention instead of flouting it as he did with Moonlighting. Among the cringe-worthy cliches are Kate's tiresome conversations with her overbearing mother (Olympia Dukakis) who yearns for a grandchild, and the conclusion in which a roomful of strangers (at a wedding, no less) are witness to the couple's climactic fight and reconciliation. Of course, they applaud. Optional. (K. Lee Benson)