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Sarandon is a beguiling mix of innocence and toughness and Lancaster brings all his charisma and dignity to bear on a role that is in many ways an older version of the handsome but doomed noir heroes he made his name portraying.

Rattles from one incoherent action scene to the next.

Despite a new-found element of the touchy-feelies, the clever, cryptic plotlines which mark this series out are still in place.

Dead hunky guys and half naked hottie corpses make for high ratings - it’s about style, sex appeal and money

New York in the Eighties contributes some of the film’s iconic imagery, but it’s Santo Loquasto’s costumes that are perhaps the most memorable element.

Appallingly developed characters and situations decay and rot onscreen.

The story moves like treacle, with the action bogged down and emotions bottled up.

It's a Boy Girl Thing is not only lightweight but gives the impression, plotwise, of being held together with bits of string.

The story is so predictable you wait for that running-through-the-spray on the beach scene with dread and could choose the girly ballads on the soundtrack with pinpoint accuracy.