Surrender (1987)

I’m making a very bad habit of watching these romantic comedy stinkers. Sally Field and Michael Caine have absolutely no romantic chemistry in this film about a writer who is fed up with women he thinks are using him for his money so he creates a ruse when he meets up with a new woman who catches his interest. Caine’s character is actually terribly unappealing as a romantic lead and it’s puzzling how he would have gotten with the likes of Field and Iman. The meet-cute between Sally and Mike happens when they are made to undress and be tied up together at a charity event that gets hijacked. The rest of the movie is just as preposterous as that. It completely squanders the talents of its supporting cast, which includes the likes of Julie Kavner, Steve Guttenberg at his 1980s finest, Peter Boyle, and Jackie Cooper. It’s like no one even bothered watching the movie as it was being filmed to see if it had any potential at all.