You Can't Hurry Love (1988)

Directed by

Richard Martini

Genre

romantic comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

R

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man moves to Los Angeles and is told he must pretend to be someone else to succeed there. He goes on several video dates and discovers that everyone he meets is faking, except the woman who works at the dating service. He learns that being himself is the only way to find real love.

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What happens

You Can't Hurry Love is a 1988 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Martini and starring David Leisure, Scott McGinnis, Anthony Geary, and Bridget Fonda. A man moves to Los Angeles and hears that "the only way to be successful in Los Angeles is to pretend to be someone else." He goes on a series of video dates and learns that everyone he meets is pretending to be someone else except for the girl who works at the dating service; he realizes the only way to find love is to be himself. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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