The acting in the movie is very good. There is a believable sadness in Dan Aykroyd's character which is perfectly balanced by the complete joyfulness of Vada, the main character played by Anna Chlumsky. Macaulay Culkin is in it. And he shared with Chlumsky an award from MTV in 1991 for the best kiss scene for this movie. The second love interest of Vada is played by Griffin Dunne who you may know from An American Werewolf in London. And there is a surprisingly good performance by the legendary Jamie Lee Curtis considering that her character is basically there just to be a love interest to Aykroyd's character, which stirs some drama in the film.
Today I saw a movie called "Matchstick Men" made with $62 million which grossed only $65 million, but in my opinion should have made more. I mean we have a director of Alien and Gladiator - Ridley Scott. The lead actor is the amazingly over the top - Nicolas Cage. And a wonderful script by Ted Griffin who wrote Ocean's Eleven. And like Oceans Eleven it's a comedy about con artists.