Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)

On the TCM recording, Robert Osborne introduced this as being one of his selections for an "Overlooked Film" Festival in L.A. He blamed the original title ("Head Over Heels") as one of the reasons it wasn't seen during its theater run. I think it's more likely because the story is rather small and unoriginal.

John Heard and Mary Beth Hurt do as good a job as they can in their roles, but it winds up just being a love story that doesn't go anywhere. It's basically an awkwardly presented (complete with to-the-camera narration at times) light take on obsession in which it's never quite clear on why Heard would be obsessed with this rather unremarkable woman.

It wasn't rooting either way -- whether or not they were together didn't matter a bit to me. It was fine when they were dating and fine when they weren't...they seemed equally messed up regardless. Why bother, you know?

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