Something Short of Paradise (also known as Perfect Love)[2] is a 1979 American romantic comedy film directed by David Helpern from a screenplay by Fred Barron.

Madeleine Ross (Susan Sarandon) is a journalist, and her boyfriend, Harris Sloane (David Steinberg), is the owner of an art theatre.

[3] John Corry of The New York Times stated, "Something Short of Paradise is about a romance so whimsical, so fey and so pointless that it almost doesn't exist", criticizing the lack of chemistry between the leads and the screenplay.

[4] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote "Neither off-putting nor distinctive, the characters barely exist as figments of Barron's undernourished imagination.

"[5] Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel also both gave the film thumbs down on their TV series, negatively comparing it to Annie Hall.