Someone who lets something go to his head feels he is better than others.
VOA: special.2009.03.08
Ms. Ephron's Mike McAlary is a hard-drinking tough-guy Irish reporter who lets fame and money goto his head and turns into a jerk, and Mr. Hanks, here as always, is too ingratiating ever to let himself become truly unlikable.
The sentimental strain is both unconvincing and ungrounded, but in the all-too-rare moments when Murphy, who invests with psychodrama the role of a misfit learning manners, lets himself go the movie comes brilliantly to life.