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Addicted to Love

5.2

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Original title

Addicted to Love

Year

1997

Running time

100 min.

Country

United States

Director

Griffin Dunne

Screenwriter

Robert Gordon

Cast

Music

Rachel Portman

Cinematography

Andrew Dunn

Producer

Warner Bros., Outlaw Productions, Miramax

Genre

Romance. Comedy | Romantic Comedy

Synopsis

When his childhood sweetheart leaves him for another man, astronomer Sam (Matthew Broderick) rents the flat opposite her apartment, in order to spy on her. The man his lost love Linda (Kelly Preston) has taken up with is Aton (Tcheky Karyo), who has in turn dumped his own fiancée - photographer Maggie (Meg Ryan), who now wants revenge. Maggie teams up with Sam to launch a campaign against Aton and Linda, with hilarious consequences.

Critics' reviews

"It's a movie that has nothing nice to say about anybody. Far from the romp its ads make it appear to be, it's misanthropic, cruel, hostile, corrupt, blasphemous and basically pretty evil. I loved it."

Stephen Hunter: The Washington Post
"It is always a problem in a love story when the rival seems more interesting than the hero, and that's what happens here. (...) There is, in fact, a lot of good stuff here, but it's all at the service of an imbecilic approach. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"A deliciously nasty, dark comedy."

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
!It's a tribute to Robert Gordon's nifty screenplay and Dunne's cheerful way with digression that 'Addicted to Love', even as it broadens into screwball, also deepens into a character study full of surprising left turns"

Ella Taylor: LA Weekly
A desperately misbegotten screwball comedy."

The New Yorker
"One of the most inventive romantic comedies to come around in some while."

Marc Savlov: Austin Chronicle
"It is always a problem in a love story when the rival seems more interesting than the hero, and that's what happens here"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
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Addicted to Love

1997

Griffin Dunne

5.2

(5,546)