Head Over Heels (2001)

10% of critics liked it
(88 reviews)
58% of users liked it
(46,364 ratings)

If you think you've seen a man killing someone, does that mean you shouldn't be dating him? This and other questions about modern relationships are explored in this offbeat romantic comedy. Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter) has found a great job (restoring paintings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art)… More If you think you've seen a man killing someone, does that mean you shouldn't be dating him? This and other questions about modern relationships are explored in this offbeat romantic comedy. Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter) has found a great job (restoring paintings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and a great place to live: a spacious East Side apartment that she shares with four successful models, played by Ivana Milicevic, Shalom Harlow, Sarah O'Hare, and Tomiko Fraser. Amanda is still in the market for a great boyfriend, since most of her previous relationships have ended in broken promises or infidelity. She thinks she may have found the right guy in Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze Jr.), but she has reason to believe that he might be guilty of murder. Since she's not sure he has actually done anything, she decides to find out the truth, and her investigation has unexpectedly comic consequences. Head Over Heels was directed by Mark S. Waters, whose first feature, The House of Yes, also starred Freddie Prinze Jr.. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: PG-13, 1 hr. 26 min.
Directed By: Mark Waters (VIII)
Written By: Edward Decter, John J. Strauss, Ron Burch, David Kidd
Genres: Comedy, Romance

In Theaters: Feb 2, 2001 Wide
On DVD: Jul 31, 2001
Studio: Universal Pictures

Critic Reviews

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
The best jokes are on the models and the men who pursue them, and Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah O'Hare, and Tomiko Fraser -- the real models who play Potter's roommates --are very good sports.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Head Over Heels may bear some superficial resemblance to a movie, but don't be fooled -- it's really just a marketing strategy, a loose assemblage of components each pitched to a particular demographic.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Kerplunkingly unfunny and -- despite Potter's Julia Roberts-ish smile and ditz shtick -- charmless.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
All that's lacking is anything remotely resembling wit or style.
Caleb Crain, Village Voice
If you are 17, there are worse date movies.
Lael Loewenstein, Variety
The film's strenuous play for laughs tends to overshadow its assets.
Nell Minow, Common Sense Media
Romance, pratfalls, grossout jokes in lame comedy.
Eugene Novikov, Film Blather
The screenwriters' desperation is palpable at times.
Jim Shelby, Palo Alto Weekly
[It] just gets dumber and dumber.
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
Head Over Heels isn't exactly terrible - it's just completely uninspired.
John R. McEwen, Film Quips Online
The girls decide to conduct their own wacky investigation, with consequences that are at best negligibly humorous.
James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette
When your script calls for a suave, mysterious leading man and the best you can come up with is the bubble-bright Freddie Prinze, Jr., it's time to do some serious recasting.
Tim Cogshell, Boxoffice Magazine
Between the ridiculous stereotypes and "stupid model" jokes, the comedy in Head Over Heels stands up. The romance, on the other hand, simmers but never really boils.
Karina Montgomery, Cinerina
This is no Oscar nominee, but it's a sweet, funny, refreshingly different movie about models, a woman & the guy she loves, who may or may not be a murderer. Hee!
Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
When anyone's not delivering the groaners that pass for zingers, someone bumps into something and has a 'hilarious' pratfall.
Kimberley Jones, Austin Chronicle
For all their charm, even they can't salvage the clunker outfitting them.
Urban Cinefile Critics, Urban Cinefile
A bright and breezy start goes nowhere in this ultimately miserable attempt to mix murder, mirth and romance.
Jorge Avila Andrade, Moviola
Lo más recomendable es que la tomen como una de las últimas opciones o que de plano vayan y renten algún buen video.
Karen Moline, Movieline
Rent Rear Window instead.

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Dean M

Monica Potter as a single girl and her four beautiful models as roomies are really hilarious by solving the mystery of the man of single girl's dreams who committing a cold-blooded crime after she was spying on him.
Leigh R

Kinda cute movie.
Steven V

It's an average romantic comedy movie and also a farce and a screwball comedy. Monica Potter and Freddie Prinze Jr. had good on-screen chemistry. But, unfortunately for Freddie Prinze Jr., while he was good, it was the… More
It's an average romantic comedy movie and also a farce and a screwball comedy. Monica Potter and Freddie Prinze Jr. had good on-screen chemistry. But, unfortunately for Freddie Prinze Jr., while he was good, it was the females, in this movie that stole the show. Monica Potter is wonderful, the models are goofy yet so likable. The plot is okay but takes a long time to develop. This movie has a great ending.
Deb S

Monica Potter (Amanda) plays a woman with a quiet conservative life who has a horrible dating history and is looking for a room to move into. She ends up sharing an enormous flat with four supermodels but one night Amanda and her newly discovered supermodel roommates (who share one… More
Monica Potter (Amanda) plays a woman with a quiet conservative life who has a horrible dating history and is looking for a room to move into. She ends up sharing an enormous flat with four supermodels but one night Amanda and her newly discovered supermodel roommates (who share one brain) spy on their young attractive neighbor Freddie Prinze Jr (Jim) and they think he may have killed a young woman. But that won't stop Amanda and so she begins to stalk him to find out the truth of the situation. Toss in a dog which loves to try to hump Amanda and a topless Freddie Prinze Jr and you have a light hearted romantic comedy that will make you laugh.
Sylvester K

Trying to hard to make it a successful comedy, the plot was just ridiculous, could be seen as 2 irrelevant movies, toilet humor was over used, acting was really bad, only watch it if you are bored
Sunil J

Looked like a lot of other dumb movies of its kind but this one is quite funny.
Donna D

This was actually a very hilarious comedy for me. It was a bit cheesy, but alot of hilarious scenes throughout the movie. Made me laugh especially with Freddie's bathroom scene! lol...Monica Potter and Freddie Prince, Jr. are very cute in this amusing movie. :D I liked it alot.
Janice :

Chick flick, undoubtedly. But cute and snazzy... you can't deny Freddie's charm! Well you can, but that was kinda rhetorical... GOT IT?!
Leo L

A favorite.
Laurence C

An unfunny mess. Not worth your time.