The Thing Called Love (1993) review

Singer-songwriter Miranda Presley (Samantha Mathis) - who's not related to Elvis (but gets her hair cut by his barber) - leaves her native New York City and takes a bus to Nashville, Tennessee where she auditions at the famed Bluebird Café (but keeps being rejected), meets and becomes friends with fellow musicians James Wright (River Phoenix, in one of his final screen roles), Kyle (Dermot Mulroney) and Linda (Sandra Bullock) ... and then a "love triangle" forms between Miranda, James and Kyle.  There are multiple real-life country stars in this (including K. T. Oslin, Webb Wilder, Pam Tillis and Trisha Yearwood) to lend it some "authenticity," but the songs are basically the only noteworthy aspect to it (even though I'll admit I'm not remotely a fan of the genre): the characters are woefully underdefined and it kind of just goes through the motion of the "story" without much energy.  Ironically, the last scene could have been where the true drama started: are Miranda and the lads going to try to live as a "throuple?"  How's will that work out?  If it fails - and there's a high likelihood it will - it'll give the three of them material for quite a long time.