You Can’t Hurry Love

Eddie Hayes lands in Los Angeles hoping to restart his life after being left at the altar in Ohio. He quickly encounters the city's eccentric characters and a cousin who wants to play it fast and loose with his career. This move sets the tone for a chaotic, comedic hunt for stability and love.

Skip arranges a job interview for Eddie at an advertising agency run by Peter Newcomb, but the setup is a ruse. Eddie shows up eager for a legitimate opportunity only to be looped into an illusionary path. The situation foreshadows the blurred line between desire and deception that drives the film.

Peter instead hooks Eddie up with his half-brother Tony at a beach-side surfboard shop, where Eddie starts handing out flyers and begins his new, unconventional LA gig. The beach locale exposes him to a wilder cast of characters. The job anchors him in a detached, chaotic world of modern romance and showmanship.

Eddie literally bumps into Peggy Kellogg on the boardwalk, and she flirts with him while handing him a dating service card. The encounter plants the seed of his attempts to settle down through dating and continues to entwine his personal and professional journeys. Peggy's presence signals the dating misadventures ahead.

On the boardwalk, Eddie confronts Skip about the bogus job, and Skip defends it as a necessary fake-it-till-you-make-it step. The lie becomes a way of life as Eddie leans into appearances over reality. The sequence establishes the central theme of surface over substance.

Eddie collects his first paycheck and asks Peter for a promotion, hoping to prove himself and accelerate his status. Peter remains skeptical, underscoring Eddie's insecurity about earned success. This moment marks Eddie's restless hunger within the advertising world.

To get closer to Peggy, Eddie enters Video Valentine and becomes a participant in his own dating experiment. He puts himself on camera, kickstarting a string of unusual blind dates. The whole process mixes showmanship with pursuit of love.

Eddie's first blind date is with a Madonna-inspired woman who hopes the encounter will launch her fame. She is flirty and reckless, and the date ends with her straddling him in a convertible after a condom is offered by her father. She leaves him with her head shot for future parts.

Eddie goes on a second date with Rhonda, a performance artist who dresses him up for a night at a club. They endure a cavalcade of strange acts as Eddie tries to maintain some dignity in the chaos. The date leaves him unsettled about his search for love amid the spectacle.

After leaving the club, someone chloroforms Eddie while Rhonda talks with someone nearby. He wakes up at Rhonda's place to be berated for his old-fashioned ideas about settling down, and a crossbow is pointed at him as he flees. The incident is captured on video, intensifying the danger in his dating misadventures.

Eddie's parents show up unannounced, and Skip pretends they are filming a candid-camera moment to spare their feelings. The family visit exposes Eddie's chaotic private life to his parents and increases the stakes of his deception. The scene heightens the film's farcical tension.

Eddie tries to salvage a date with Monique by taking her to dinner with his parents, but she pushes the boundaries. She follows him to the restroom and attempts sex in front of the attendant, then drags him to a shop window for a risqué display. The spectacle compounds Eddie's mounting troubles.

After a string of capers, Eddie is arrested and his parents bail him out. Skip's own parents learn of the antics and cut him off financially. The consequences of Eddie's bluffing life begin to bite as he faces real penalties for his behavior.

At a party at the advertising firm, Eddie is introduced to an executive who promotes him, feeding his sense of validation. His date believes he is wealthy, but an older man barges in and delivers a black eye, reminding him of the fragile line between luck and risk. The scene marks a turning point in his professional life.

After his final dating video, Skip drives Eddie to the church where Peggy is maid of honor. Peggy accepts his date proposal and they share a kiss, giving Eddie a hopeful end note for his personal life. The moment blends a romantic payoff with the film's ongoing theme of chasing love amid chaos.