Mickey knows about marriage.

He knows it wont work if one partner is happy and the other miserable.

No, a successful marriage requires both to be miserable

Love is such sweet misery in this witty, joyous tale of when Mickey (Billy Crystal), a basketball referee, met Ellen (Debra Winger), an airline employee.

They fall head over croissants for each other in Paris, then reluctantly move on to pursue their careers, only to reunite passionately and make feverish domestic-bliss arrangements.

Now the sticky part: making sure marriage doesnt cure their love.

Produced and directed by Crystal, co-written by him and Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (City Slickers), and shimmering with the polished lustre of co-stars Joe Mantegna, Julie Kavner and William Hickey, Forget Paris is a comic romance to remember.