If Lucy Fell (1996)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Eric Schaeffer

Writers (WGA):

Eric Schaeffer (story) &
Tony Spiridakis (story) ...

Release Date:

8 March 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

A comedy for the romantically challenged.

Plot:

Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe...

Plot Keywords:

Best Friend | Roommate | Brooklyn Bridge | Love | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Sarah Jessica Parker	...	Lucy Ackerman
Eric Schaeffer	...	Joe MacGonaughgill
Ben Stiller	...	Bwick Elias
Elle Macpherson	...	Jane Lindquist
James Rebhorn	...	Simon Ackerman
Robert John Burke	...	Handsome Man
David Thornton	...	Ted
Bill Sage	...	Dick
Dominic Chianese	...	Al
Scarlett Johansson	...	Emily
Michael Storms	...	Sam
Jason Myers	...	Billy
Emily Hart	...	Eddy
Paul Greco	...	Rene
Mujibur Rahman	...	Counterman

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some sexuality.

Runtime:

92 min | Argentina:93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:R (certificate #33861) | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Denmark:16 | Spain:T | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA)

Trivia:

Emily Hart's film debut.

Goofs:

Continuity: Bwick Elias is carried to make two perfect red footprints on the canvas, then in the next scene with the canvas, there are two red blotches that look nothing like his original footprints.

Quotes:

Al: I'm proud of you Joe.
Joe MacGonaughgill: Why?
Al: You finally figured out the girl in your heart isn't the girl in your dreams. Some people don't figure it out all their lives.

Soundtrack:

Who's Leaving Who

Very Disappointing

Don't tune into this film if you are looking for the sparkling actress, Sarah Jessica Parker. In this film she is "angst" ridden and her male room mate "Joe" is well a, frustrated (in every since of the word), struggling artist.

They were best college pals and have shared a rather large NYC apartment, until one or both find "the one" for them.

Wish, I could find something positive to say, but it just isn't there. An interesting, if rather trite, premise, completely misses the mark in every area. Are they supposed to be "avant garde?" The "edgy" soundtrack, and weird performance/character "Blick" played by Ben Stiller, tips me off that they were aiming for "hip or black comedy." Elle Macphearson was completely wasted, and half of her screen time, she was wearing some "hunter in the great white north hat." Terrible.

Whatever. None of it works, and parts of the script were so pathetic and embarrassing (i.e. "would you drink my spit?" and the hug test), it seems that someone would have objected.

By the way, who is the actor portraying the faithful room mate, Joe. Hope the casting directors are hanging their heads in shame, along with the wardrobe department, and script writers.

Too much time spent on his pathetic weirdness, would have been better spent fleshing out the relationship between Lucy and her father. Did most of end up on the editing room floor, in favor of more screen time for "Joe?"

All around sad, check out episodes of "Sex and the City," to see what this film was trying to capture, but missed by a mile. What makes it worse, are the few glimpses of "what could have been." This will only make you more disappointed, in the overall film.