So Fine (1981)

Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Mariangela Melato, Richard Kiel, Fred Gwynne ... see more  , Mike Kellin , David Rounds , Joel Stedman , Jessica James , Donna Bailey , John Bentley , Dick Boccelli , Judith Cohen , Lois De Banzie , Pierre Epstein , Tyra Ferrell , Merwin Goldsmith , Margaret Hall , Jim Jansen , Michael LaGuardia , Lydia Laurans , Gail Lawrence , Alan Leach , Rick Lieberman , Michael Lombard , Christopher Loomis , Beverly W. May , Bernie McInerney , Irving Metzman , Bruce Millholland , Anita Morris , Lenka Peterson , Angela Pietropinto , Chip Zien , James Hong , John Stockwell , Terri Treas , Webster Whinery , Bill Luhrs , Sally Jane Heit , Danny Kwan , Pamela Lewis , Jeremy Ritzer , Howard Feuer , Paul B. Price , Anthony Sirico Jr.

Trying to recreate the screwball comedy success of his collaborations with Peter Bogdanovitch, actor Ryan O'Neal headlined this sporadically funny mixture of light farce and social satire. O'Neal star... read more s as Bobby, an intellectual English professor who leaves his job when his father Jack (Jack Warden) appeals to him for help. A garment manufacturer, Jack is in serious debt to humongous loan shark Eddie (Richard Kiel), and he desperately needs his business to provide the capital to pay Eddie back. Completely by accident, Bobby invents the solution to his dad's problem: see-through denim blue jeans with strategically placed holes in the rear that expose one's backside. The fickle public goes mad over the "sexy" new style, and the money starts flowing in, but Bobby exacerbates his father's problems greatly when he falls for and begins dating the amorous Lira (Mariangela Melato), whose husband is none other than Eddie. So Fine was the feature directorial debut of popular Blazing Saddles (1974) writer Andrew Bergman, who would wait eight years before getting behind the camera again with the much more successful The Freshman (1990). ~ Karl Williams, Rovi