Very serious comedy, but very funny, about a man who thinks he has found the perfect woman and pursues her accordingly, and a woman who knows she is not that and wants him to stop. They and a host of other characters are thoroughly particularized by age, by speech, by mode of dress, by habitat, by occupation, by every means available. Revisions made after the movie's initial and unprofitable release in 1979 are all but imperceptible, apart from the rather conspicuous title-change from Head over Heels to that of the original Ann Beattie novel. Improvements are even more imperceptible, and it could be argued that the flatter, suddener, freeze-frame ending is actually a move in the opposite direction. But then, the room for improvement was much less than the room for impairment. With John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Gloria Grahame; directed by Joan Micklin Silver. (1979) — Duncan Shepherd