Oxford Blues

Oxford Blues is a 1984 British comedy-drama sports film written and directed by Robert Boris and starring Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy and Amanda Pays.

It is a remake of the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film A Yank at Oxford and was Lowe's first starring role in a feature.

Nick Di Angelo is working in a Las Vegas casino to earn enough money to pursue the woman of his dreams, Lady Victoria Wingate, to Oxford, England.

After spending the night with a beautiful older woman, he collects enough money to make the trip and arrives at Oxford in his 1955 Ford Thunderbird, which promptly gets stuck between two walls along a very narrow street.

[2] Lowe suggested Princess Stephanie of Monaco for the role of Lady Victoria as he had a crush on her.

A colleague of his said at the same time, "Rob was very hurt about the critical reaction to Oxford Blues, because he really thought it would work.