Small town fire chief CD Bales (Steve Martin) falls madly in love with the new girl in town, a gorgeous astronomer (Daryl Hannah). But there's an enormous problem - CD has an amazingly big nose, and is convinced that such a beauty could never love a man with such a gargantuan appendage.

Roxanne proves him right when she falls for Chris, a hunky and good looking fireman. The mayhem continues when CD agrees to ghost-write Chris's love letters, in which he pours out his own secret feelings.

In this charming modernisation of the Cyrano de Bergerac story, will CD's nose (and Chris's body) come between him and true love?