Head Over Heels (2001 film)
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| Head Over Heels | |
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| Directed by | Mark Waters |
| Produced by | Robert Simonds |
| Written by | John J. Strauss Ed Decter David Kidd Ron Burch |
| Starring | Monica Potter Freddie Prinze Jr. Shalom Harlow Timothy Olyphant |
| Music by | Randy Edelman Steve Porcaro |
| Cinematography | Mark Plummer |
| Editing by | Cara Silverman |
| Distributed by | Universal Studios |
| Release date(s) | 20 April 2001 |
| Running time | 86 mins |
| Country | United States of America Canada |
| Language | English Russian |
| Budget | $14 million [1] |
| Gross revenue | $13,127,022 (worldwide) [2] |
Head Over Heels is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Waters about a woman (Amanda Pierce, played by Monica Potter) living in New York City who works at The Met restoring paintings.
Early in the film, she moves in with four supermodels and falls for a man living in an apartment that they can see across the street. After the models try to help Amanda get the man, they find out he might not be what he appears to be.
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[edit] Plot
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Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter), a New York paintings conservator working at The Met, has very bad judgment in men which is proven when she walks in on her boyfriend cheating on her with a supermodel. Amanda begins looking for a new apartment and finds one with four struggling models, Jade (Shalom Harlow), Roxana (Ivana Miličević), Candi (Sarah O'Hare), and Holly (Tomiko Fraser). When Amanda discovers that Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), the guy she likes, lives in the apartment across from hers she starts spying on him to try and find his flaw. One night Amanda sees Jim kill a woman, Megan O'Brien (Tanja Reichert), and by the time the police arrive they don't believe Amanda because she is the only witness, and the evidence is gone. Annoyed about the police's lack of effort to find out what has really happened, Amanda and her new friends investigate on their own. When Amanda finds out about what she thinks is Jim's involvement with Megan's death, she confronts him. Amanda's judgment turns out to be wrong and Jim's (who turns out to be undercover cop, Bob Smoot, who was trying to gain Halloran's (Jay Brazeau) trust by staging his partner Megan's death) cover is blown. Amanda discovers that Jim is investigating Halloran, a Russian man who has been smuggling in money and who Amanda has been privately restoring a painting for. Later, Jim, Amanda and her roommates get captured but later escape when Roxana seduces their Russian guard and with the help of the models realize what Halloran was really doing, smuggling diamonds. At the end Amanda and Jim (going by his real name Bob) "meet" again and the movie ends when Bob takes Amanda up to his new apartment and shows her the view, which turns out to be of Amanda and the models' apartment.
[edit] Cast
- Monica Potter as Amanda Pierce
- Freddie Prinze, Jr. as Jim Winston/FBI Special Agent Bob Smouthe
- Shalom Harlow as Jade (roommate, Canadian)
- Ivana Miličević as Roxana Milla Slasnakova (roommate, Russian)
- Sarah O'Hare as Candi (roommate, Australian)
- Tomiko Fraser as Holly (roommate, African-American)
- China Chow as Lisa (co-worker at The Met)
- Tanja Reichert as Megan O'Brien
[edit] Reception
The film opened on April 20, 2001 to largely negative reviews, receiving a 10% "Certified Rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes. It was noted, "Head Over Heels is being blasted by critics as a huge mess. The plot and jokes are idiotic, while the toilet humor is gratuitous and more gross than funny."[3] The movie has received a Metacritic aggregate rating of 27 out of 100 reviews, denoting "generally negative reviews" based on 25 reviews.[4]
By most standards, the film was financially unsuccessful. Released on February 2, 2001, the film opened at #7 in 2,338 theaters and grossed $4,804,595 in the opening weekend. The final domestic grossing was $10.4 million while the foreign market grossed $2.7 million for a worldwide total of $13,127,022. Against its $14 million budget, the film was a flop.[5]
[edit] Trivia
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The director, Mark Waters himself, revealed on the commentary for Just Like Heaven that he regrets making the movie and is not proud of the film.
Claire Danes was originally set to play the lead role of Amanda Pierce, but dropped out at the last moment. Monica Potter, who'd already been signed on for a smaller role, was moved into Amanda's part as a result.
Shalom Harlow has said that she used to live in an environment much like the one Jade, Roxanna, Candi, Holly, and Amanda live in.
[edit] References
- ^ "Box office mojo". Box office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=headoverheels.htm.
- ^ "Box office mojo". Box office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=headoverheels.htm.
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- ^ "Box office mojo". Box office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=headoverheels.htm.
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