Just the Way You Are

Kristy McNichol is her usual delightful self, playing a professional flutist whose right leg has been lame since childhood. Her mild handicap has made her self-conscious, despite all the men who take an active interest in her before they notice her limp and the metal brace she wears. While on a European tour, she decides to cover her foot with a cast and go to the French Alps, where attractive women with casts on their legs are a common occurrence, to see how what life might be like as a person without a visible disability. While there, she gets involved with a sexy American photojournalist, played by Michael Ontkean, and befriends a wealthy French ski manufacturer with a fully amputated leg, played by André Dussollier. The lovely mountains setting, attractive and winsome leads, as well as terrific supporting turns by Kaki Hunter (Porky's), Lance Guest (The Last Starfighter), Alexandra Paul (Christine), Tim Daly (Diner), and Robert Carradine (Revenge of the Nerds) makes this a mild but pleasant, unusually structured romantic comedy.