 He signed on as a client of Creative Artists Agency and made a deal to direct the 1996 romantic comedy "If Lucy Fell" for a budget of $3.5 million for Columbia TriStar.Schaeffer starred opposite model Amanda de Cadenet in the 1997 romantic drama "Fall", about a cab driver who begins a passionate affair with a model he first met in his cab.In 2000, he released the comedy "Wirey Spindell", a semi-autobiographical tale.