"When you're blind, people think you're stupid," Dan Aykroyd says early in Love At First Sight, a romantic comedy that proves the sightless might not be stupid, but they sure are clumsy. It's pratfalls galore when salesman Aykroyd meets a kindly shopper (Mary Ann McDonald) in a store filled with fragile porcelain knickknacks. After toppling over countless tacky items, he loses his job, but gains a new friend when McDonald walks him home. The antics don't stop there. Aykroyd confuses her by turning off the lights after entering his apartment, and when the lights come on, the confusion continues as McDonald discovers a pair of goldfish whose death seems to have been caused by a diet of black pepper. In a gesture that could be considered either sweet or cruel, McDonald fixes up Aykroyd's apartment in secret, rearranging his furniture and covering the walls with posters of cute animals. Will love find a way to join the sighted and the blind? Not if McDonald's dad (George Murray) has anything to do with it. After an awkward dinner ends with a Murray-suggested game of blind-man's bluff, the relationship hits a rocky patch. "I ain't havin' no daughter of mine hangin' around with some guy who's got to sit down to take a leak," he insists, ruling out Aykroyd and the unconfident of aim alike. But McDonald's grandmother (Jane Mallett) knows a good man when one comes her way, and with her savings as a gift, the happy couple steals Murray's car and hits the road, heading for Niagara Falls with the intention of opening a restaurant. When Murray tracks down his wayward daughter, Aykroyd fakes a miraculous recovery of his sight, which seems to appease the angry father enough to make him head home. What happens next? There's no need for a sequel, or even a proper climax, when Roy Payne's closing-credits song provides all the information viewers crave: "Now, Roy and Shirley they searched and searched every day and night / Then one day they finally found it, and it was love again at first sight / 'We'll rent 'til we can buy,' Roy said, with a grin upon his face / 'and we'll hang a sign outside the door and call it Roy & Shirley's Place.'" And what of Mallett? "And when the place was all paid for, Shirley made a call / and grandma packed her things and headed for the Falls."
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