Head Over Heels
1979 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Charles is a Salt Lake City civil servant who loves (*LOVES*) Laura, a lovely housewife with a lovely step-daughter and an A-frame-selling, ex-quarterback husband named Ox. His roommate is "an unemployed jacket salesman," his mother is a spacey, laxative overdosing, overly eccentric basket-case, his perpetually happy sister finds love in the dorkiest of guys, his step-father has a jones for Turtle Wax and his boss asks him for advice about his Ivy League son's sexual problems. He listens to Janis Joplin and dreams of getting Laura back once and for all. He does everything in his power to win her back from Ox, and the lengths he goes to provide the structure of the film in this bittersweet romantic comedy...a film that explores what happened to the Woodstock generation when they transcended their idealism (i.e. it was expected that they fall in love and face the music of routine). Charles is perhaps the quintessential saint of this ideology.
Direction Joan Micklin Silver
Cast John Heard · Mary Beth Hurt · Peter Riegert · Kenneth McMillan · Gloria Grahame · Nora Heflin · Jerry Hardin · Tarah Nutter · Mark Metcalf · Allen Joseph · Frances Bay · Griffin Dunne
Soundtrack Ken Lauber
Screenplay Joan Micklin Silver · Ann Beattie
Cinematography Bobby Byrne
Original title Head Over Heels (Chilly Scenes of Winter)
6.6
27 votes (FilmAffinity)
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