You Can't Hurry Love (film)

You Can't Hurry Love
Directed by	Richard Martini
Written by	Richard Martini
Produced by	Jonathan D. Krane Simon R. Lewis Lawrence Kasanoff William J. Rouhana Jr. Anthony Santa Croce Ellen Steloff
Starring	David Leisure Scott McGinnis Anthony Geary Bridget Fonda Frank Bonner Lu Leonard Merete Van Kamp David Packer Charles Grodin Sally Kellerman Kristy McNichol
Cinematography	Peter Lyons Collister John Schwartzman
Edited by	Richard Candib
Music by	Bob Esty
Production company	Vestron Pictures
Distributed by	Lightning Pictures
Release date	January 20, 1988 (1988-01-20)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$9,333,152 (US)

You Can't Hurry Love is a 1988 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Martini and starring David Leisure, Scott McGinnis, Anthony Geary, and Bridget Fonda. A man moves to Los Angeles and hears that "the only way to be successful in Los Angeles is to pretend to be someone else." He goes on a series of video dates and learns that everyone he meets is pretending to be someone else except for the girl who works at the dating service; he realizes the only way to find love is to be himself.

Plot

Eddie Hayes is a newcomer to Los Angeles who seeks to take a job to re-start his life after a failed relationship in his Ohio home town. His slacker cousin, Skip, sets him up with a job interview at an advertising company, headed by the eccentric Peter Newcomb, who instead hooks Eddie up with his punk half-brother, Tony, at a beachside surfboard shop in handing out flyers. Eddie meets a potential new girlfriend, named Peggy Kellogg, who works for a dating service. To be close to Peggy, Eddie decides to moonlight as a director of interview videos for the dating service. He soon puts himself in front of the camera to try to pick up a potential girlfriend for himself to settle down with. As he goes on a series of disastrous blind dates with various women, each one stranger than the last one, will Eddie ever hook up with Peggy despite the fact that she has a boyfriend, and is engaged?

Cast

• David Leisure - Peter Newcomb
• Scott McGinnis - Skip
• Anthony Geary - Tony
• Bridget Fonda - Peggy Kellogg
• Frank Bonner - Chuck Hayes
• Lu Leonard - Miss Frigget
• Merete Van Kamp - Monique
• David Packer - Eddie Hayes
• Charles Grodin - Mr. Glerman
• Sally Kellerman - Kelly Bones
• Kristy McNichol - Rhonda
• Luana Anders - Macie Hayes
• Jake Steinfeld - Sparky
• Judy Balduzzi - Glenda
• Danitza Kingsley - Tracey

Home media

The film has been released on DVD by Lions Gate Home Entertainment as a double feature with Love Hurts.

External links

• You Can't Hurry Love at IMDb
• You Can't Hurry Love at Rotten Tomatoes