So Fine (film)

So Fine
File:So Fine (film).jpg Italian film poster
Directed by	Andrew Bergman
Produced by	Mike Lobell
Written by	Andrew Bergman
Starring	Ryan O'Neal Jack Warden Mariangela Melato Richard Kiel Fred Gwynne
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	James A. Contner
Edited by	Alan Heim
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	September 25, 1981 (1981-09-25)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$9,800,000

So Fine is a 1981 comedy film written and directed by Andrew Bergman. The original music score was composed by Ennio Morricone. Ryan O'Neal was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award as Worst Actor of the Decade.

Plot summary

NYC dress manufacturer Jack (Warden) is in debt to loan shark "Mr Eddie" (Kiel), who tells him that Jack's son Bobby (O'Neal) must join the firm as "new blood", despite Bobby's complete lack of knowledge of the dress business, and current career as a Professor of American Literature at a small liberal arts college. Kidnapped by two of Eddie's goons, Bobby is forced to come back to the city and join his father's business. Bobby complicates matters by falling in love with Mr Eddie's neglected wife, the cultured Lira (Melato). After a late-night tryst at the home of Eddie and Lira, Bobby accidentally invents the solution to his father's problem: see-through denim blue jeans with strategically placed holes in the rear that expose one's backside. The fickle public goes crazy over the "sexy" new style. "Fine Fashions" repays its debt to Eddie, and Bobby goes back to his college. However, Lira follows him, and Eddie finds out about them and heads to the school in a murderous rage. Jack follows anxiously, and the last quarter of the film involves Lira stepping in for an ill singer to perform the role of Desdemona in the school's version of the opera Otello. Eddie knocks out the male lead and himself takes the role of Othello. Jack and Bobby then do their best to stay alive while trying to protect Lira from her jealous husband.

Cast

• Ryan O'Neal - Bobby Fine
• Jack Warden - Jack Fine
• Mariangela Melato - Lira
• Richard Kiel - Eddie
• Fred Gwynne - Chairman Lincoln
• Mike Kellin - Sam Schlotzman
• David Rounds - Professor McCarthy

See also

Kinky Boots

External links

• So Fine at IMDb
• So Fine at AllMovie