A wild and kooky love story.

eland Irving (Gabe Kaplan) is depressed and lonely but his attempts at suicide are unsuccessful. He hires a professional hit man, Maurice Avocado (Henry Gibson) to kill him; Avocado will use the code word "Tulips" when the time is at hand. While awaiting his fate, Leland comes across a woman—Rutanya Wallace (Bernadette Peters)--who is attempting suicide, and saves her. Rutanya is suffering from being rejected by a lover, but is charmingly unconventional and outgoing, the opposite of Leland's introvert. Their lives become inter-twined, and although wary and battling initially, they fall in love and marry.
However, now that they have found each other, they must call off the hit by Avocado, and complications arise. When Avocado will not agree to calling off the Hit, Leland and Rutanya desperately try to obtain guns, etc., to attempt to kill the killer. In the end, no one dies.
In one of the early scenes of their courtship, Leland plays the tuba while Rutanya sings "Sidewalks of New York".

After many failed attempts at suicide, a hopeless man takes a contract out on himself--except now that he has fallen in love with a likewise suicidal woman, he wants to live. Now he must figure out how to call off the hit man so they can enjoy life together. Gabe Kaplan and Bernadette Peters star in this Canadian comedy.

Release Date: October 1981

Distrib: Avco Embassy


Rare do
i find a film that has absolutely no professional reviews to post. TULIPS is one of them.