A re-telling of «Cyrano de Bergerac», Edmund Rostand's play about a proboscis - challenged
swordsman armed with the Blarney (in spades), Schepisi's noxious Roxanne stars a downhill - sliding Steve Martin and a Daryl Hannah who didn't yet know that Blade Runner and Splash would be the only things anyone would know her for until a career resurrection of sorts some fifteen years later with Kill Bill.