Clooney's character and performance resurrect about the most recycled cliche seen in every boy meets girl romantic comedy, even when he's killed before the romance is about to start, he's 'charming' when he's drifting off into space, cracking jokes and being entertaining while dying. Sandra Bullock's character is transparently manipulative- of course there had to be something sentimental like a dead child. An alternative cliche would have been she's trying to prove it to a deceased mentor or a father figure who believed in her when no one else did, coming up from the 'hood.
