Joe MacGonaughgill and Lucy Ackerman are roommates and best friends living in a small Manhattan apartment.

If they do not both find true love by the time Lucy turns thirty, they will jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.

In January 1995, it was announced Eric Schaeffer would write, direct, and co-star in If Lucy Fell, described as a post-Gen X romance, for the Motion Picture Corporation of America.

[3] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, gave the film one out of four stars, writing:[Eric Schaeffer] is obviously a smart guy.

I'd like to see a Schaeffer movie in which he plays a guy as smart as he is; in which he takes the risk of wanting to make a good film, instead of hiding behind irony.