If Lucy Fell . Tucson Weekly . 03-21-96

If Lucy Fell

DIRECTED BY: Eric Schaeffer

REVIEWED: 03-21-96

Sweet, sentimental and utterly stupid, this romantic comedy stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Eric Schaffer as Lucy and Joe, two friends who agree to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge if they haven't found love by Lucy's 30th birthday. Parker plays a bored psychotherapist comfortable discussing everyone's psychological shortcomings but her own, while Joe is a sensitive, guy-next-door painter committed to his five-year fantasy with the scantily clad rear-window girl (Elle Macpherson). Despite its superficial moralizing (beware lines like "Congratulations, you finally discovered the girl in your heart is not the girl of your dreams"), the dialogue is just great at times. Ben Stiller's performance as Bwick, Lucy's unlikely love interest, is downright hilarious. A welcome diversion for star-crossed lovers half-heartedly contemplating suicide.

--Stacey Richter

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