- Title: USA: RELEASE OF ROMANTIC COMEDY "HEAD OVER HEELS"
- Date: 26th January 2001
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA , UNITED STATES (JANUARY 26, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) MONICA POTTER SAYING " I love doing stuff like this, because I think, some of the simplest things are the funniest things, you know. I think when you try to get too technical with things it's like . . ." SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRINZE, JR. SAYING "I used to have t
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- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES & VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
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- Story Text: "Head Over Heels" is a romantic comedy starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Monica Potter about the very complicated relationship between a young woman, her supermodel roommates, and a man she incidentally comes to suspect of murder after falling in love with him.
"Head Over Heels" is a romantic comedy about the very complicated relationship between a young woman and a man she comes to suspect of murder.
Amanda (Potter) is a young woman in love, prone to unconscious pratfalls and tongue-tied babbling.
She meets her true love Jim (Freddie Prinze Jr.) in an apartment building lobby after a huge Great Dane sidles up to her before knocking her over and trying to get friendly - well, more than friendly - with her. She becomes an experiment for her supermodel roommates, who attempt to transform her from an "ugly duckling" into a swan.
Potter, who previously played opposite Robin Williams in "Patch Adams," stars in the film as an art restorer who's unlucky in love. She shares a swank apartment with four models, played by . . . real models, Sarah O'Hare, Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic and Tomiko Fraser, whose seemingly effortless beauty sends men scrambling to their aid, unbidden.. Their motto: "We don't pay, we're models."
Supermodel Milicevic enjoyed the spoof on her industry. "I think that you can't really take the modelling agency too seriously," she told Reuters. "We're not surgeons, it's a good time and let's just make fun of the fact that there's a career out there where people are paid money to be primped and made beautiful and sell clothes, basically, be hangers. So what's serious about that."
Potter fell for her role after reading the script. " I love doing stuff like this, because I think, some of the simplest things are the funniest things, you know. I think sometimes they try to get too technical with things." She also found it easy working with Freddy Prinze, Jr.
"Sometimes in life things just click, and that's exactly what happened.
When I met him, it was like that, you know, and we're friends today because of that and it's like that in life, when you meet certain people there's good exchange of energies," she told Reuters.
Amanda falls in love with neighbour Jim, whom she can easily look in on through her apartment window. Borrowing heavily from Hitchcock's
"Rear Window," Amanda believes she sees Jim kill a woman during one of these spying sessions.
In order to suspend the audience's disbelief, the cops don't believe Amanda, so it's up to her and her model friends to find out the truth while she pursues her romance with him.
Prinze, who has steadily become a favorite of the teen audience, took the role to stretch his acting chops. "Until I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger and can say I can do whatever I want then I pretty much have to be a little more careful with my career and pick a bit more adult roles and I guess I got to get a couple more artistic roles and things like that," he told Reuters. Apparently he doesn't want to stretch too much as his next role is in the live action, big screen rendition of the cartoon "Scooby Doo." The film was directed by Mark Waters, who previously directed the Sundance favorite "The House of Yes," starring Parker Posey.
"Head Over Heels," tumbles into North American theaters on February 2.
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