I Love Trouble (1994)

After a train derails in Chicago, two rival reporters (Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte) from two different Chicago newspapers discover that the train derailment may not have been an accident but intentional. As each works on the story, they put their heads together in the hope of solving the mystery but how much can they really trust each other? Written by Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer and directed by Shyer (BABY BOOM), this is a rather sloppily written romcom thriller. Shyer's talent seems to lie in domestic comedies like the 1991 FATHER OF THE BRIDE remake or the charming BABY BOOM but he has no talent for the thriller aspect of the story which is pretty flabby. More importantly, Roberts and Nolte have zero chemistry (reputedly they couldn't stand each other) and Nolte is all wrong for something like this which requires a certain leading man charm and charm is the last thing Nolte has. They say all directors have one Hitchcock movie in them but as Shyer clearly proves, that's not always so. There appears to have been some last minute tinkering as Elmer Bernstein's score was replaced by David Newman and Marsha Mason and Olympia Dukakis are in it so briefly, they're not mentioned in the opening credits. With Robert Loggia, Saul Rubinek, Eugene Levy, James Rebhorn, Charles Martin Smith and Lisa Lu.