Foolin' Around (1980) – Richard T. Heffron.

Heffron's charmingly bright and breezy sports comedy centres on a naïve country boy Wes's (Gary Busy) eager attempts to woo a sophisticated college coed Susan (Annette O'Toole) away from her snotty Ivy League fiancé Whitley (John Calvin). Alongside the two effervescing leads, Foolin' Around enjoys an exceptionally fine supporting cast with exemplary performances from Eddie Albert, Cloris Leachman, and a riotously funny turn from Tony 'Yes, madam!' Randall. Minnesota makes for a wholesome backdrop, and the quotable text, and agreeably bouncy score supply this charming 80s comedy with some additional warmly fuzzies. 

The film's sun-dappled, enjoyably screwballed cosy familiarity is manifestly part of its infectiously 'ain't life swell' rewatchability. The scintillatingly exquisite, dulcet-voiced Annette o'Toole is never less than a goddess throughout, Busey's toothsome affable lug routine was never less routine, and rarely as affable as his mishap prone, understandably besotted dope, Wes. It's rare to see a genuinely romantic comedy that is so consummately goofy, rather than unintentionally so. A tad more sedate, perhaps, Foolin' Around has a lively, roustabout Blake Edwardian quality that I still find enormously appealing!

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