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| John Heard | ... | Charles | |
| Mary Beth Hurt | ... | Laura | |
| Peter Riegert | ... | Sam | |
| Kenneth McMillan | ... | Pete | |
| Gloria Grahame | ... | Clara | |
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Nora Heflin | ... | Betty |
| Jerry Hardin | ... | Mr. Patterson | |
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Tarah Nutter | ... | Susan |
| Mark Metcalf | ... | Ox | |
| Allen Joseph | ... | Blind Man | |
| Frances Bay | ... | Mrs. Delillo | |
| Griffin Dunne | ... | Dr. Mark | |
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Alex Johnson | ... | Elise |
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Beverly Rowland | ... | Woman in Park (as Beverly Booth Rowland) |
| Oscar Rowland | ... | Man in Store | |
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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. Written by thustlebird
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Country:
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15 July 1982 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
Chilly Scenes of Winter See more »Filming Locations:
Salt Lake City, Utah, USACompany Credits
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Written by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer
Performed by Bette Midler
Courtesy of Atlantic Records
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Charles: [walking into Laura's unfurnished apartment] I thought maybe this might be your minimalist period.See more »
Alternate Versions
Head over Heels was released in 1979 and flopped as a mainstream release. After it flopped, the producers took the film, reedited it, added a new ending that was faithful to the original novel by Ann Beattie (who appears as a waitress at the beginning of the film), and released the new version as Chilly Scenes of Winter (the same title as the original novel) in 1980 in film houses. See more »Soundtracks
SkylarkWritten by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer
Performed by Bette Midler
Courtesy of Atlantic Records
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I first saw this film in Berkeley around 1982 or '83, wasn't aware until now that it had been made 3 years earlier. At the time, I had already read and was a fan of Beattie's Chilly Scenes of Winter, upon which this is based, and was confused as to why Silver had retitled it "Head Over Heels", but it's not uncommon, and I thoroughly enjoyed the film, especially as it was true to the book. I then heard that Silver had been unsatisfied with the ending, re-cut it for video, and changed the name back to "Chilly Scenes of Winter". I rented the video to see the changes, and discovered that she had cut the last ten minutes or so of the film, which totally changed it from the way the book ends, and, incidentally, lessens the quality of the film. Thus, it went from a 9 to an 8 for me. As for the previous poster, Mary Beth Hurt was in fact in a relationship with William Hurt, to whom John Heard bears a resemblance; MB and William were married for 10 years.