Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do — go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, wait until she decides to leave her current lover, and then win her back.

• Outlaw Productions
• Warner Bros. Pictures
• Meg Ryan
• Matthew Broderick
• Kelly Preston
• Tchéky Karyo
• Maureen Stapleton
• Nesbitt Blaisdell
• Remak Ramsay
• Lee Wilkof