Head Over Heels
Short description
Amanda Pierce is an art restorer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and she has just moved into a spacious apartment on the East Side that she shares with four models. Burned by a past relationship, she is wary of getting involved again, but she soon falls for Jim Winston, a charming man who lives in the same building. Her feelings are complicated when, one night, she believes she sees Jim commit a violent crime. Unsure whether she can trust her own eyes or the man she has come to care about, Amanda starts looking into what really happened.
Head Over Heels is a romantic comedy directed by Mark Waters, the first of the fifteen films he has directed in chronological order, ahead of Freaky Friday. John J. Strauss, Ed Decter and David Kidd wrote the screenplay, and Robert Simonds produced for Universal Pictures. Monica Potter plays Amanda, with Freddie Prinze Jr. as Jim. The models sharing the apartment are played by Shalom Harlow, Ivana Miličević, Sarah Murdoch and Tomiko Fraser, among a credited cast of twenty-two.
The film had a budget of 14 million US dollars and took about 13 million worldwide, a modest return. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.5 out of 10 from roughly 16,000 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 5.8 out of 10 from around 273 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Claire Danes was initially cast as the lead character, Amanda Pierce, but she left the project just before filming began. The role was given to Monica Potter, who was originally intended for a supporting role.
- The role of Jim Winston was written specifically for Freddie Prinze Jr., who went on to play the part.
- At the beginning of the film, Jim is given the chance to demonstrate his knife-throwing skills, but he misses the target. It only becomes clear later that he was actually aiming for a fly in mid-air, and he hit it. This scene is almost entirely borrowed from the action-comedy 'From China with Love' (Stephen Chow and Lee Lik-chi, 1994).
- While working on the film, director Mark Waters drew inspiration from classics—the romantic comedies 'His Girl Friday' (Howard Hawks, 1939) and 'The Philadelphia Story' (George Cukor, 1940).
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