Barcelona

Comedy drama following a pair of very different cousins as they struggle to come to terms with Spanish life in the 1980s. Ted Boynton (Taylor Nichols) is the Spanish contact for an American industrial conglomerate who has decided only to date plain women, having had plenty of bad experiences with more attractive ones., Two preppy young Americans taste Spanish life., Two Americans in Europe pursue two liberated Spaniards., Ted is a rather shy and stuffy man from Illinois, working at the sales department in Barcelona for an American corporation. Not quite comfortable in the vibrant city, he welcomes a visit from his less stuffy cousin Fred, who gives him a new outlook on the opportunities of Barcelona., Whit Stillman’s follow-up film to Metropolitan is a tart and chilly romantic comedy about Americans abroad during “the last decade of the cold war.” Ted Boynton (Taylor Nichols) is an American salesman based in Barcelona with woman problems. Tired of having beautiful women reject him, he decides that plain women are more accessible and vows never to sleep with anyone again until he has found the right girl. Into his life appears his loud-mouthed cousin Fred (Chris Eigeman), an officer in the U.S. Navy. Fred announces a prolonged sojourn and Ted reluctantly takes him in. The two cousins don’t hit is off at first but they settle in to a common interest –women. The two hit the town looking for available women –Ted hoping to find love and Fred looking for hot sex. Coming upon a group of beautiful “trade fair girls” the cousins manage to find a girl suitable for each of their needs., Offbeat romantic comedy about an up-tight American who is visited by his gregarious cousin in the midst of the politically volatile post-Franco atmosphere.