[Head Over Heels] has a great deal of charm and truth in its characterizations.

This is especially surprising because the novel is so excruciatingly dull and lifeless. (p. 23)

[Joan Micklin Silver] has given form to the very raw material of [Ann Beattie's] novel and pruned the weedy expanses of meaningless dialogue….

Silver's direction is not as successful as her writing. She has studded the movie with annoying tics that she seems to have picked up from Woody Allen. Chief among these is her having Heard address the camera, a device that quickly becomes as tiresome as the Annie Hall-like fantasy sequences that she has also used. (As a result, Head Over Heels has been unjustly and unfavorably compared to Annie Hall, a much inferior film.)…

On the other hand, Silver has elicited very convincing performances from the supporting players…. (p. 24)

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