EDITOR’S NOTE: You Can’t Hurry Love was on USA Up All Night on June 28, 1991.

Video dating is a way of learning a lot about yourself, if we follow this film. Eddie (David Packer) got left at the altar and moved to LA. His cousin Skip (Scott McGinnis) gives him a car, a place to live and a job with Peter Newcomb (David Leisure), who sends him to work for his combat shock-addled brother Tony (Anthony Geary). As he hands out ads on the beach, Eddie decides to try video dating, which is run by Peggy (Bridget Fonda).

He claims to be a director, so his first date is with an actress who wants to be Madonna. Her father (Charles Grodin) tells him to make sure and wear a condom. As you can imagine, things don’t go well. Neither does trying to date rock girls, like Rhonda (Kristy McNichol), who nearly shoots him with a crossbow. And Monique (Merete Van Kamp) wants to have sex in public with him while his parents are at dinner.

As you can imagine, Eddie realizes that love isn’t found in this way and asks Peggy out.

Six years before this was made, Packer was a witness to the murder of Dominique Dunne, who was strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend, John Sweeney, while Packer was at her home for a rehearsal. He called the police and later found Sweeney kneeling over Dunne’s unconscious body. Dunne died from her injuries days later, and while Sweeney was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, the judge and others felt the crime was murder.

Cinematographer John Schwartzman also shot “Video Valentino,” the short film on which this movie is based, for director Richard Martini. Martini promised Schwartzman that if the short ever became a movie, he would hire him to shoot it. He lived up to the claim, but the completion bond company wouldn’t approve both a first-time director and a first-time cinematographer. Schwartzman asked Peter Lyons Collister, who had prior feature experience, to co-shoot the movie with him.

You can watch this on Tubi.