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Head Over Heels (1979)
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Writers:
Ann Beattie (based on the novel "Chilly Scenes of Winter" by)Joan Micklin Silver (screenplay)
Release Date:
15 July 1982 (Australia) moreTagline:
A romantic comedy for all seasons. morePlot:
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... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
Stepdaughter
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Husband Wife Relationship
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Extramarital Affair
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Salt Lake City Utah
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the highs and lows are REAL more (24 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Heard | ... | Charles | |
| Mary Beth Hurt | ... | Laura | |
| Peter Riegert | ... | Sam | |
| Kenneth McMillan | ... | Pete | |
| Gloria Grahame | ... | Clara | |
| Nora Heflin | ... | Betty | |
| Jerry Hardin | ... | Patterson | |
| Tarah Nutter | ... | Susan | |
| Mark Metcalf | ... | Ox | |
| Allen Joseph | ... | Blind Man | |
| Frances Bay | ... | Mrs. DeLillo | |
| Griffin Dunne | ... | Mark | |
| Alex Johnson | ... | Elise | |
| Beverly Rowland | ... | Woman in park (as Beverly Booth Rowland) | |
| Oscar Rowland |
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USAFun Stuff
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Sam: What do you want from a child her age? She never even went to Woodstock!Charles: Neither did we.
Sam: But we *could* have.
Charles: That's true.
Susan: Listen, Woodstock was just a bunch of naked stoners looking for a place to pee. I saw the movie!
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I have always loved this film, ever since I first saw it in its re-release as "CSOW" in 1982. I have never seen the "Head Over Heels" version, thankfully. What really hit me then was the parallel to an obsessive love affair I had just experienced. I was dumped by a woman I met at work, and it was several months before I got over it. I had an unfulfilling, drab office job, and an unemployed roommate sharing a house with me.
As a film, what makes this so special is its lack of pretense. The characters are as flawed as they are lovable. The relationship between Charles and his mother is as unsettling as it is comical. Even though Charles is a self-obsessed jerk, his simple devotion to the one wonderful, transcendent thing in his life - the love he and Laura shared - is endearing. He is not so much a stalker as someone who simply cannot bear the thought of returning to the uneventful, empty life he knew before Laura.