Chilly Scenes of Winter (film)

Chilly Scenes of Winter (film)
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
Produced by Mark Metcalf
Amy Robinson
Griffin Dunne
Written by Screenplay:
Joan Micklin Silver
Story:
Ann Beattie
Starring John Heard
Mary Beth Hurt
Peter Riegert
Music by Ken Lauber
Cinematography Bobby Byrne
Editing by Cynthia Scheider
Distributed by United Artists Films
Release date(s) 1979 (USA)
Running time 92 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Chilly Scenes of Winter (originally released as Head over Heels) is a 1979 romantic comedy film, written and directed by Joan Micklin Silver.

The film is an adaptation of the 1976 novel Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie.

Contents

Name change

The first version of the film, with the title Head over Heels, had a happy ending. In 1982, the distributor re-released it with a new title to match the book, plus a new melancholy ending.[1] The film had a more successful run this time.[2]

Synopsis

Charles Richardson is a civil servant in his early 30s, working in the Department of Development, Salt Lake City, Utah, and an impetuous romantic.

One day he meets Laura Conley in the filing department of his office and it is love at first sight.

Laura is a married woman who has just moved out on her husband Ox, a log home salesman. She is disillusioned by own marriage and wants to find herself.

Charles gathers courage and asks her out. Soon she moves in with him and seems happy.

But she starts having second thoughts. According to Laura, he loves her too much. "You have this exalted view of me, and I hate it. If you think I'm that great then there must be something wrong with you."

Laura leaves Charles and goes back to her husband, Ox.

Sam, recently unemployed as a jacket salesman, moves in with Charles, who tries to grapple with the loss of Laura. Charles's mother, meanwhile, is an eccentric who has suicidal thoughts.

Charles begins to make efforts to win Laura back. Charles finds out from his secretary, Betty, that Laura has left Ox once again and is living in an apartment with a roommate.

Cast

References

  1. ^ How 'Chilly Scenes' Was Rescued NY Times, October 10, 1982
  2. ^ Turner Classic Movies, Cult Movies Showcase

External links

v · d · eFilms directed by Joan Micklin Silver
1970s
Hester Street (1975) · Between the Lines (1977) · Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
1980s
Crossing Delancey (1988) · Loverboy (1989)
1990s
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992) · A Private Matter (1992) · Invisible Child (1999) · A Fish in the Bathtub (1999)

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