Kissing a Fool

In 1990s and 2000s, if you wanted your film to get positive review from at least one influential critic, it helped to have it set in Chicago. Roger Ebert wasn’t very successful in hiding his local patriotic bias so such films tended to get favourable treatment. When they got thumb down, like in the case of *Kissing a Fool*, 1998 romantic comedy written and directed by Doug Elin, that usually meant that they were wor…