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When a Man Loves a Woman

1994

Luis Mandoki

Meg Ryan, Andy García, Ellen Burstyn, Lauren Tom ...

5.6

7,732

Drama. Romance Imagine a picture perfect family: a dashing pilot father, two beautiful daughters, and a loving guidance counselor mother. There's just one rub: Mom's got a perfectly hidden drinking problem. Suddenly a boating accident brings the family's secret into the open. The mother struggles first to conceal and then confront her alcoholism, finally entering a rehabilitation clinic. While his wife heals, the husband has to hold his family ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Here is a wise and ambitious film about the way alcoholism affects the fabric of a marriage (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Leonard Klady Variety	"It's a first-class production, accentuated by fine performances and an unflinching script"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The Hollywood esthetic, with its intrinsic prettiness, overwhelms the painful, unglamorous realities that this cautionary tale is supposed to be about."	NEU
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"This pushes enough buttons to be moving, and is to be applauded as an all-too-rare attempt from the mainstream to grapple with grim, grown-up reality (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"The script does a good enough job establishing the dynamics of the Green family that we never doubt that the story deserves to be told. The film's poignancy is its strength (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"There's nothing about these people to make you care what happens to them, and ultimately the film drowns in its own good intentions (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[A] surprisingly gripping love story (...) Even when the film threatens to sink in Hollywood gloss, Ryan and Garcia achieve a rare and remarkable poignancy."	POS

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