Falling Over Backwards

Falling Over Backwards

104 mins | Comedy | Aug. 23, 1990

All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women altogether, he finds a house in his old neighbourhood and persuades his elderly crotchety father Harvey to move in with him. Harvey is something of a comic and, as Mel rediscovers, none too easy to live with. To add to the friction, there's the landlady, Jackie. From Mel's point of view as an aspiring celibate, she's all wrong: far too intelligent, attractive and unconventional. But, strangely enough, Jackie becomes the focus of the Rosenblooms' refashioned lives.

Falling Over Backwards

104 mins | Comedy | Aug. 23, 1990

Falling Over Backwards
All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women altogether, he finds a house in his old neighbourhood and persuades his elderly crotchety father Harvey to move in with him. Harvey is something of a comic and, as Mel rediscovers, none too easy to live with. To add to the friction, there's the landlady, Jackie. From Mel's point of view as an aspiring celibate, she's all wrong: far too intelligent, attractive and unconventional. But, strangely enough, Jackie becomes the focus of the Rosenblooms' refashioned lives.
Producers Astral Films
Original title Falling Over Backwards
Directors Mort Ransen
Writers Mort Ransen

Cast

Saul Rubinek

as Mel

Paul Soles

as Harvey

Julie Saint-Pierre

as Jackie

Helen Hughes

as Rose

Carolyn Scott

as Marilyn

Montie Stethem

as Walter

Barry Flatman

as Arthur

Vlasta Vrana

as Drunk