Watch out for a pre-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone as a sexy siren in this comedy about two warring TV talk-show hosts (Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins) who carry on their relationship both in front of and behind the cameras. The film is split into two halves (one directed by Ken Kwapis, the other by his wife Marisa Silver) so you see the romance from each point of view. Both Bacon and Perkins are attractively amiable, but neither manages to sustain the comedy to the end and, after part one, it does get a bit tedious seeing the same events only from a slightly different perspective.

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.