IF LUCY FELL

"Wait, you're not Bwick!"
A few months ago, as you may or may not remember, we highly recommended a television show called "Too Something." "Too Something" had theoretically just gone on haitus while they renamed it, but its suspiciously long absence makes us wonder if it's ever coming back, and if not, at least if it's been given a proper burial, with full religious rites and all that. Because if it hasn't, we might have to go out there in the dead of night with a shovel and... oh... nevermind.

STILL - No Need To Dwell On the Negative, because one of the brilliant minds we were so emphatically trying to force on you has a movie coming out:

* If Lucy Fell *

Eric Schaeffer wrote, directed and stars in this movie with Sarah Jessica Parker, Ben Stiller and Elle Macpherson.

"If Lucy Fell" is about two friends, Joe MacGonaughill (Schaeffer) and Lucy Ackerman (Parker) who made a pact in college that if they hadn't found true love by the time they turned 30, they'd jump off the Brooklyn Bridge together. When the movie opens, Lucy's birthday is a month away.

Elle Macpherson plays Jane, the woman Joe's stalkingerahadmiring in the next apartment building. Ben Stiller does a hilarious job playing Bwick, a pop arts painter - and believe us, that's capital "A" Artiste. Bwick is eccentric and self-involved, but charming and thoughtful enough to win Lucy's interest.

Once again, Eric Schaeffer is particularly interested in letting the audience hang out for awhile in the world he creates. The movie becomes an absorbing barrage of wonderful moments. Shaeffer has created a group of people you just want to jump into the middle of...and this includes the marvelous construction of a friendship between Joe and Lucy that has no more sexual tension in it than a caterpillar (there's more to be said about this as regards the ending...but if we said it, we'd be giving too much away and then we'd have to have "Warning: Spoilers" tattooed across our foreheads and would be less than charming, as we're sure you'd agree).

"If Lucy Fell" is well done all around. Sarah Jessica Parker is terrific as the slightly neurotic Lucy, and Schaeffer is sublimely charming, as always. Basically,

WE LIKE THIS GUY AND WE WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO REALIZE HOW DAMN COOL HE IS SO GO SEE THE MOVIE.

Okay? If you don't like it, you can beat us up.

Disclaimer: offer void where the part you didn't like was the ending.

[Eric Shaeffer] Eric Shaeffer (Joe MacGonaughgill, writer, director) and the tree.

Also check out the incredibly swank Sony Pictures If Lucy Fell page

Not to mention Utopia Parkway[tm]'s own Shrine to Eric Shaeffer - The Man, The God, and His Tree