Head Over Heels (2001)

A young woman is attracted to a man despite her thinking she's seen him kill someone.

Director:

Mark Waters

Writers:

John J. Strauss (story), Ed Decter (story)

Stars:

Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze Jr., Shalom Harlow

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Monica Potter	...	Amanda
Freddie Prinze Jr.	...	Jim Winston
Shalom Harlow	...	Jade
Ivana Milicevic	...	Roxana
Sarah Murdoch	...	Candi (as Sarah O'Hare)
Tomiko Fraser	...	Holly
China Chow	...	Lisa
Jay Brazeau	...	Halloran / Strukov
Stanley DeSantis	...	Alfredo
Erin-Marie Dykeman	...	10 Year-Old Amanda
James Kirk	...	Tommy
Elysa Hogg	...	Tommy's Girlfriend
Kristina Lewis	...	17 Year-Old Amanda
Ben Silverman	...	Charlie
Sam MacMillan	...	Charlie's Date

Storyline

Amanda Pierce is from Iowa and works as a restorer of Renaissance paintings for the New York Metropolitan Museum. She has just finished another frustrating relationship, when she found her boy-friend with a model on her bed. She decides to move and share a flat with four stupid but nice super-models. She meets Jim Winston, who lives in front of her window. She falls in love with him. One day, she sees Jim killing a woman - Megan O'Brien - through her window and Amanda and her four roommates decide to investigate what really happened.

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Plot Keywords:

murder witness | apartment building | art restoration | apartment | binoculars | 

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Taglines:

Unleash your inner model.

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Genres:

Comedy | Mystery | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, crude humor and language

Details

Official Sites:

Universal Pictures

Country:

USA

Language:

English Russian

Release Date:

2 February 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

Folles de lui

Filming Locations:

Bryant Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$14,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$4,804,595, 4 February 2001, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$10,397,365, 4 March 2001

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures, Robert Simonds Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jim Winston has a chance to display his throwing knife skills early in the film, only to apparently miss what he is aiming at. Later on, it is revealed he actually hit a fly dead center, his true target. This sequence is taken nearly verbatim from _Guo chan Ling Ling Qi (1994)_.

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Goofs

Jim Winston demonstrates his dagger-throwing prowess by throwing a dagger at a room divider. The dagger hits the divider several feet above the release point, and at least six or seven feet to Jim's left. It should have struck the wood angled significantly down and to the right. In the close-up, however, the dagger is shown stuck in the wood with its axis perfectly level, and at 90 degrees to the surface.

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Quotes

[pissed off at how she looks]
Amanda: I look like STEVIE NICKS!

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Alternate Versions

11 seconds were cut by the distributor from the UK version to secure a "12" rating.

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Connections

References Four Rooms (1995)

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Soundtracks

The First Time
Written by Daniel Cage
Performed by Daniel Cage
Courtesy of MCA Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

Stereotypical and silly, but still in all good fun

Oh, come on, people, was it really that irritating to you? Now, I admit, in no way is this movie Oscar material or the best movie of 2001, but learn to have a little fun. Are you really telling me that you couldn't laugh at the models? They took the movie and made it into a fun ditzy comedy. Basically, it's incredibly predictable, but Freddie Prinze, Jr. is a "fashion" business man who falls for Monica and she does as well. But as she states that she has bad judgment of men, there is a terrible thing she witnesses in an apartment with her "model" roommates and see him commit a murder! Together they investigate to find out if she is going to have a murderer boyfriend or live happily ever after, you make the guess.

5/10