Overnight Delivery *** (1998, Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, Christine Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 2802

Director James Bloom’s amusing 1998 college romantic comedy is nicely cast, well played and rather sweet.

Paul Rudd stars as freshman Wyatt Trips, who’s sworn to be faithful to his girlfriend Kim (Christine Taylor) 1,000 miles away, but is afflicted by temptation. He hears that Kim has spent the night with ‘The Ricker’, and drowns his sorrows at a bar. There he pours his heart out to stripper Ivy Miller (Reese Witherspoon), who proposes a revenge plan for him – taking and sending a picture of the two of them semi-naked.

Trips then sends the photo in a package by overnight delivery. But, when he gets home, he hears Kim’s message that ‘The Ricker’ is a dog she’s looking after. Now Trips and Ivy set off on a road trip together to try to intercept the picture and accompanying letter. But the delivery man will not stop until the package has been delivered…

Also in the cast are Sarah Silverman, Buffy Sedlachek, Richard Cody, Gary Wolf, Carl Anthony Payne and Larry Drake.

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