I Love You to Death (1990)

Films and the critics who hate them (732 movies items)

"Although the story supposedly is based on an actual incident, it plays like some leaden supernatural sitcom. - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly"

An average movie

“Back in the 80’s, not only Lawrence Kasdan had some major success as a screenwriter (he wrote ’The Empire Strikes back’ , ’Return of the Jedi’ and ’Raiders of the Lost Ark’ , not too shabby, ain’t it?), he developed also a solid career as a director and all his movies were acclaimed efforts (’Body Heat’, ‘The Big Chill’ , ‘Silverado’ , ‘The Accidental Tourist’) . However, in the 90’s, his directing efforts were not that impressive and, in my opinion, it all started to go wrong with this flick. I know, it has nowadays more or less reached a cult status but I thought it was not really good at all. I mean, the whole thing had some potential, there was a pretty cool cast (Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman River Phoenix, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves) but I just didn” read more

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" Rosalie Boca: They look like drug addicts. Devo Nod: Well, they are drug addicts. Rosalie Boca: Oh my God. You hired drug addicts? Devo Nod: Who'd you expect me to hire? The Red Cross? Nadja: They seem like very polite boys. Rosalie Boca: I don't like having drug addicts in my house. Nadja: Oh no, Rosalie. Don't think of them as drug addicts. Think of them as killers."

Phillydude's Movie Log - June, 2012 (38 movies items)

" Watched June 21st - Amazon Steaming - 1st Viewing "If we keep shooting Joey, don't you think he might get suspicious?" - Marlon James Part two of my 90's double feature was I Love You To Death, a dark comedy about a philandering pizza shop owner who's wife and Mother in law have had enough of, so they decide to kill him, but discover that he is a hard man to kill. It is an uneven movie but it does have its moments of hilarity - Kevin Kline is excellent as the husband and I also liked William"

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" April 14 I'd seen this one years ago but figured it was worthy of a re-watch when I got together with my kid sister for a film night. Having been born in 1989, my sister didn't know who River Phoenix was, and that's a real shame. I think this film serves as a soft landing to River's work. True, his role is pretty small but cool none the less. I could see a lot of myself in his character, the New Age/sensitive type boy Devo who has a crush on his employer's wife. The story is quirky, making m"

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" In this movie, probably categorized best as a “dark comedy,” Tracy Ullman discovers that her Italian husband (Kevin Kline) has been serially unfaithful. Devastated, her reaction is to secretly plan and carry out his murder. Unfortunately her many attempts at this fail, leaving him blissfully unaware that he is in any danger, and thus providing the action of the movie. One of her ideas is to poison him by making him a big spaghetti dinner with two whole bottles of sleeping pills mixed into"