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If Lucy Fell (1996)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:5
Rotten:20
Average Rating:4.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Joe and Lucy are best friends and roommates in a small Manhattan apartment...and she's about to turn 30. So Lucy won't stop reminding Joe of their pact to jump off a bridge if they haven't found... Joe and Lucy are best friends and roommates in a small Manhattan apartment...and she's about to turn 30. So Lucy won't stop reminding Joe of their pact to jump off a bridge if they haven't found true love by the time she hits the big three-oh. Joe reluctantly agrees to honor the agreement. But first Joe tries to head off disaster by helping their romantic lives take off. He begins by anonymously inviting his beautiful neighbor (whom he's been ogling for years) to his first gallery opening. Then he makes sure this big event also offers possibilities for Lucy--who wins the interest of celebrated conceptual artist Bwick Elias. Will Joe and Lucy find love in the world of art? Or will the two roommates discover that when it comes to romance, there really is no place like home? [More]
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Eric Schaeffer, Ben Stiller, Elle Macpherson
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Eric Schaeffer, Ben Stiller, Elle Macpherson, James Rebhorn
Director: Eric Schaeffer
Director: Eric Schaeffer
Story: Eric Schaeffer, Tony Soiridakis
Screenwriter: Eric Schaeffer
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Steve Stabler, Brad Jenkel
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If Lucy Fell has all the attributes of romantic comedy, including absolute predictability. The only surprise is that it also provides a mostly-enjoyable journey to its ultimate destination.
Schaeffer trips up, though, when he lets his philosophies get the better of him.
Schaeffer is the one who fells Lucy by casting himself in the male lead, then failing to convince anyone that either female lead could be attracted to his character.
There is an affectation that I find particularly annoying, and that is when people choose to perform at a level below their natural intelligence.
If you're looking for a limp and humorless comedy, look ye no further.
These writer-director-actors seem to want to make movies just so they can be cuddly in them.
The quality of American comedy writing really seems to be on the rise.
If Lucy Fell is funnier more often than not, and when it's not being funny it's at least being strange. I'll take strange over what most major-distributor comedies are when they're not being funny.
All coy grins and daffy mugging, Mr. Stiller plays the role as if aspiring to become the Elliott Gould of his generation. Compared with jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge, that's a reasonable goal.
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