 Head over Heels was released in 1979 and flopped as a mainstream release.   After it flopped, the producers took the film, reedited it, added a new  ending that was faithful to the original novel by Ann Beattie (who appears as  a waitress at the beginning of the film), and released the new version as  Chilly Scenes of Winter (the same title as the original novel) in 1980 in  film houses.