You Can't Hurry Love (film)
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| You Can't Hurry Love | |
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| Directed by | Richard Martini |
| Written by | Richard Martini |
| Produced by | Jonathan D. Krane Simon R. Lewis Lawrence Kasanoff William J. Rouhana Jr. Anthony Santa Croce Ellen Steloff |
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| Cinematography | Peter Lyons Collister John Schwartzman |
| Edited by | Richard Candib |
| Music by | Bob Esty |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Lightning Pictures |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $9,333,152 (US) |
You Can't Hurry Love is a 1988 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Martini and starring David Leisure, Scott McGinnis, Anthony Geary, and Bridget Fonda. A man moves to Los Angeles and hears that "the only way to be successful in Los Angeles is to pretend to be someone else." He goes on a series of video dates and learns that everyone he meets is pretending to be someone else except for the girl who works at the dating service; he realizes the only way to find love is to be himself.
Plot
[edit]Eddie Hayes is a newcomer to Los Angeles who seeks to take a job to re-start his life after a failed relationship in his Ohio home town. His slacker cousin, Skip, sets him up with a job interview at an advertising company, headed by the eccentric Peter Newcomb, who instead hooks Eddie up with his punk half-brother, Tony, at a beachside surfboard shop in handing out flyers. Eddie meets a potential new girlfriend, named Peggy Kellogg, who works for a dating service which Eddie decides to moonlight as a director of interview videos for the dating service to be close to Peggy. Eddie soon puts himself in front of the camera to try to pick up a potential girlfriend for himself to settle down with. As he goes on a series of disastrous blind dates with various women, each one stranger than the last one, will Eddie ever hook up with Peggy despite the fact that she has a boyfriend, and engaged?
Cast
[edit]- David Leisure - Peter Newcomb
- Scott McGinnis - Skip
- Anthony Geary - Tony
- Bridget Fonda - Peggy Kellogg
- Frank Bonner - Chuck Hayes
- Lu Leonard - Miss Frigget
- Merete Van Kamp - Monique
- David Packer - Eddie Hayes
- Charles Grodin - Mr. Glerman
- Sally Kellerman - Kelly Bones
- Kristy McNichol - Rhonda
- Luana Anders - Macie Hayes
- Jake Steinfeld - Sparky
- Judy Balduzzi - Glenda
- Danitza Kingsley - Tracey
Home media
[edit]The film has been released on DVD by Lions Gate Home Entertainment as a double feature with Love Hurts.
External links
[edit]- You Can't Hurry Love at IMDb[1]
- You Can't Hurry Love at Rotten Tomatoes[2]
- You Can't Hurry Love at AllMovie[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "You Can't Hurry Love (1988)". IMDB.
- ^ "You Can't Hurry Love". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango.
- ^ "You Can't Hurry Love". allmovie.
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