Meryl Streep, as always, is excellent in this film. And it's nicely made, with Robert de Niro providing a good foil for her. We soon realised it's quite old, as films go - the lack of mobile phones, and the presence of old-fashioned dials on house phones rather gave it away. It was in fact made in 1984.

However the subject-matter is all too modern. Frank and Molly bump into each other in a bookshop, while Christmas shopping. Each is happily married to someone else - and although a predictable switch of parcels happens, they might not have met again but for the coincidence of being on the same train.

A friendship starts... and escalates far too quickly, each convinced they have found their soul-mate. I didn't like the message conveyed - that the promises of marriage can be thrown aside, even when the marriages are, basically, pretty good.

Still, it was reasonably entertaining, very well done, and even mildly amusing in places. Five stars for the production, three - or a little less -for the storyline. Four overall. ( )