If Lucy Fell

If Lucy Fell (1996)

  • 19% of critics liked it
    (27 reviews)

  • 47% of users liked it
    (5,072 ratings)

This vanity project from writer, director, and star Eric Schaeffer is a romantic comedy about a pair of New Yorkers with a suicide pact. Joe MacGonaughgill (Schaeffer) is a painter and teacher who has been spying for years on Jane (Elle Macpherson), the gorgeous woman who lives across the alley,… More

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R, 1 hr. 32 min.
Directed By
Eric Schaeffer
Written By
Eric Schaeffer
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 8, 1996 Wide
On DVD
Jan 30, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

    If Lucy Fell is funnier more often than not, and when it's not being funny it's at least being strange. I'll take strange over what most major-distributor comedies are when they're not being funny.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    All coy grins and daffy mugging, Mr. Stiller plays the role as if aspiring to become the Elliott Gould of his generation. Compared with jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge, that's a reasonable goal.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    There is an affectation that I find particularly annoying, and that is when people choose to perform at a level below their natural intelligence.

  • Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle

    It's airy, fluffy and ultimately uninteresting.

  • Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today

    Sadly, the story is nowhere as original as the details and performances.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Nicki M


    I know it's not a great movie, but this is one i used to have on VHS when it first came out and just loved, so I have good memories of it, which have probably sent the rating up a star it doesn't deserve! I recently picked it up on DVD after not seeing it in years, and… More

  • Naughtia N


    Lucy has a terrible dull lovelife and lives as a single woman together with her roommate Joe. Lucy and Joe are best friends so they agree to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge if either of them aren't in a committed relationship within a month. This movie wasn't the best I've… More

  • Sunil J


    A really dumb girl movie.

  • Leo L


    Loved it.

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