Miami Rhapsody

Set, photogenically, in the Art Deco and swank bits of Miami, the tale centres on dryly smart-aleck, aspiring comedy writer Gwyn (...) and is framed by her monologue-to-camera revelations to her off-camera gynaecologist.

What is rather impressive is the way Frankel, who wrote as well as directed, is able to bring levels of truth, poignancy and pain to what begins as a fairly mechanical plot.

...a comedy of contemporary manners that's never less than entertaining and often genuinely funny.

The cast is uniformly fetching — I especially liked Antonio Banderas as a chivalrous Cuban nurse — and Parker, at once vibrant and snarky,