Head Over Heels

Monica Potter (Patch Adams) stars as a romantically luckless painting restorer for the Metropolitan Museum who lives in an impossibly fabulous, 3,000 square foot Manhattan flat with four "struggling" runway models who run around naked a lot. She falls for the phenomenally flavorless and untalented Freddie Prinze, Jr. (Hollywood's shameless go-to pretty boy for rotten romantic comedies), whom she then begins to suspect--shades of Rear Window--of murder. Sloppy, risqué screwball stalker humor ensues as Monica and her model pals investigate. A handful of blushing, out-loud laughs hardly make up for the torture of sitting through the embarrassing acting, the counterfeit characters and the unforgivably atrocious kidnapping/diamond smuggling/Russian mobster/FBI subplot that director Mark Waters (The House of Yes) blindsides the audience with in the last act. Not recommended. (R. Blackwelder)