Theatrical Release Date: August 22, 1997

Run Time: 1 Hour 37 Minutes

Danny Robertson (Greg Kinnear) and his wife Jennifer (Lauren Holly) have been trying to have a baby. Jennifer, who works at a small fragrance store creates her own specially scented perfume called the Seventh Scent that she wears during seemingly random romantic events with Danny. The Seventh Scent is a perfume that is intended to raise sexual hormones in males (is it really that necessary?), thus making the opposite sex indecisively attracted to the other. Danny works as an elevator engineer along with his buddy Steve Harris (Jay Thomas).

Anyways despite Jennifer and Danny's best efforts, they seem unable to conceive. Jennifer fearing the worst visits her doctor, only to learn that she's healthy as ever. As logic dictates, the problem must be with Danny. Still in fear Jennifer goes through hoops to retrieve a "sample" to test Danny as a potential father. She just doesn't want him to know that there could be something wrong with him. As suspected it turns out the problem is with Danny. Well after a little white lie Jennifer gets her husband Danny to accompany her to a fertilization clinic to look into the possibilities of in vitro fertilization (IVF). IVF generally has a very low success rate, but it tends to have slightly higher success rates for pregnancy over conventional methods.

After starting the IVF process, the romance in Danny and Jennifer's marriage slowly disappears. Meanwhile at work, Danny gets a job offer from the sexy architect Lindsay Hamilton (Jill Hennessy) who seems a little interested in mixing business with pleasure. Also Jennifer and her co-worker Nancy Tellen (Joan Cusack) little fragrance store with their very popular product, The Seventh Scent, have attracted the eyes of big corporate types, Richard Halstrom (Christopher McDonald). Well perhaps in relation to the pitfalls related to the failure of the IVF process, the Danny and Jennifer's marriage seems to be on the rocks.

The DVD

Spoken Languages: English, French

Non-Spoken Languages: English, French

Video:
The video is presented in 1:85 ratio widescreen color. The picture is fairly good, but there are slightly noticeable color defects and the picture is a little grainy. However these issues with the picture quality do not interfere with the viewing of the feature.

Sound:
The audio is presented in English 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound, along with both English and French 2.0 Dolby Digital surround sound. The sound is quite good; all dialogue can be easily heard throughout the feature.

Subtitles:
The subtitles are presented in both the English and French languages. The English subtitles stay in sync with the English dialogue throughout the feature, except the vocals during music are not captioned. The subtitles appear over the picture and are easily read, nor do they interfere with the feature itself.

Extras:
There aren't any extras in this DVD, nor is there even an insert!

Final Thoughts:
This feature is oddly categorized as a romantic comedy, yet it lacks something very important, comedy. While there are a couple of funny points in this feature, there really isn't enough to make this a great comedy. Similarly this feature also lacks any embodiment in the romantic area as there seems to be very little romance in the story.

In general the story itself seems a bit hollow, a couple that can't procreate due to physical deficiencies amongst the couple. Then in order to overcome this milestone they seek help from a fertility clinic and take advantage of modern medical science, in vitro fertilization, which fails to work. Of course they were fortunate enough to be able to financially support this very expensive procedure since Jennifer developed a very special hormone raising scented fragrance, which quickly attracts a quite generous buyer. Overall the plot seemed poorly constructed.

Specifically this feature attempts to portray events that occur in the fertilization clinic and the in vitro fertilization process with Kinnear and Holly as jokes. I found this to a very poor attempt at humor amongst a subject so serious. In the real world many married couples are plagued with this same dilemma. However to these people this process is not a joke. In fact it is a very taxing upon the relationship of the couple, which was slightly portrayed in this film. The psychological effects associated with a couple being unable to bear children can destroy a relationship.

With the poor portray of a very serious matter and the awful realism (along with just about everyone who saw this in the theater) I didn't care much for this feature. So if you haven't seen this film yet, I don't recommend you run out to the store and pick up a copy.