I Love You to Death

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Original title: I Love You to Death
Year: 1990
Running time: 96 min.
Country: United States
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Screenwriter: John Kostmayer
Music: James Horner
Cinematography: Owen Roizman
Cast: Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, Joan Plowright, James Gammon, Victoria Jackson, Jack Kehler, Miriam Margolyes, Jonathan Kasdan, Heather Graham, Phoebe Cates, Kathleen York
Producer: TriStar Pictures, Chestnut Hill Productions
Genre: Comedy | Black Comedy
Synopsis / Plot: Joey works with Rosalie in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the question, so she and her mother and her best friend decide to kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey who remains oblivious to their attempts.

Critics' reviews

"The best thing about 'I Love You to Death' is that although it fails in other ways, it accommodates Mr. Kline without inhibiting him. The role is a good one"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"I am not sure if the film is a success because I am not sure what it is trying to do (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"There's a quality of delicacy in Kasdan's approach to the comedy here. Each gag carries its own special weirdness (...) Yet, nice as this may be, the movie lacks an essential dynamism"

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"[It] is strenuously unclever, and Kasdan has directed it in the same style of tasteful claustrophobia he used for 'The Accidental Tourist'. The more that happens, the more the movie. . .just. . .gets. . .slower."

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"This sketchy comedy sinks beneath the weight of predictability (...) John Kostmayer's script falls back on crude exaggeration, and the result is woefully unfunny."

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