The New York Times review was quite positive.
At first I was afraid it might be too cute, but it worked. By the end, I really liked it. I watched the director's commentary version to get more of it. Nicely done. Really cute.Will Hayes comes to New York from Wisconsin to work on the 1992 Bill Clinton New York primary campaign. Full of verve and optimism, he is assigned, first, to get coffee and bagels, second to get toilet paper. Everyone starts at the bottom, and those were his assignments. Eventually he does get to call potential donors, and proves his mettle.
Back in Wisconsin his sweetheart rued seeing him leave, afraid they would drift apart as Will decided New York was where he belonged. After several weeks she does travel to New York, only to announce to him that she has slept with his former roommate, and that she is breaking off their relationship, not to hurt him, but to set him free to pursie his dreams.
This all happens as Will is telling his 12-year-old daughter the story of how he met her mother, and how it came to be that the two of them are in the process of getting divorced.
Before leaving Wisconsin, Will had been given a small brown-paper-wrapped package by his sweetheart to deliver to someone in New York. That third woman enters his life when Will goes to visit her and finds an older man, grey-bearded, cigarette-smoking and scotch-drinking college professor and author Hampton Roth (played nicely by Kevin Kline). She is Hampton's current sweetheart; he is her thesis advisor. Will delivers the package, a diary from the past that this woman, Summer (actually Natasha; Will changed names and some events as he told his daughter his story) kept.
The second woman in the story was April, a woman working the copying machine at the New York Clinton headquarters. Cynical, self-professed apolitical, she
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