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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 33178
Released: August 7, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A married man (Chris Rock) who daydreams about being with other women finds his will and morals tested after he's visited by the ex-mistress of his old friend. A funny and thought provoking look about the joy and pain of marriage and relationships.
Description of I Think I Love My Wife:
Chris Rock's loose remake of 1972's Chloe In the Afternoon, the latter an entry in French New Wave genius Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales cycle, is a half-silly, half-starchy adult comedy about a buttoned-up money manager, Richard Cooper (Rock), whose staid life at home has worn down his sexual vitality. With two kids and a somewhat joyless wife (Gina Torres), Richard's mind wanders on the job, on the train, virtually anywhere a restless husband can spot beautiful, unattainable women. Still, no harm done, until old friend Nikki (Kerry Washington) shows up in his office, wanting his support and counsel and friendship every minute over subsequent weeks. The two stay out of the sack, which makes it possible for them to be honest with one another. Nikki criticizes Richard for being in what appears to be a loveless relationship, bled dry of passion. Richard calls out Nikki for being flighty, unwilling to commit to anything.
As the relationship wears on, Richard's world is upended, and the havoc takes a toll on his family life and productivity. It's at this point where the film, co-adapted for the screen and directed by Rock, paints itself into a corner, with few interesting alternatives for a way out of Richard's dilemma that feel authentic or, for that matter, funny. A Viagra-inspired visual joke (gee, hard to imagine what that could be) is a crass gift to audience members growing suspicious that Rock has lured them into a chick flick. A soul duet between Rock and Torres appears out of nowhere and throws the emotional balance off at a crucial moment. This kind of thing makes one wonder how seriously Rock took his own project, yet there are signs that he--a very funny and intelligent talent--has a different kind of movie in him. Jokes about Michael Jackson, race, and even racially-slanted comedy are peppered throughout I Think I Love My Wife, harmless distractions in context, yet suggestive of a different kind of movie satire waiting to come out of Rock. --Tom Keogh
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Give it a chance/support this movie it was awesome!! 
2009-11-18 - This film was awesome!!! I would like to see more movies like this on a couple/relationship basis... I think everyone should give this movie a chance.. some of the reviews gave this movie a tough review... It was a nice, peaceful movie about marriage and the things men/women go through.. Go ahead give it a chance and have an open mind.. five stars from me because it sheds light on what men/women really do go through in some marriages/relationships... Enjoy! It really is a five star movie.. it showed the truth.... Chris Rock did an awesome job with this one.. Can't wait to see more from him! Keep doing a great job!!! P.S I love the way this movie ended.. It would be nice if more people throught this way... And realized what they already have....
Funny but true!
2009-02-21 - This is one of those movies that makes you laugh and keeps you on the edge, will he or wont he? You have to see it to find out for sure!
genius
2009-02-17 - This film, and I am calling it a film, understand, not a "movie," which would throw it into the congealed mass of lumpen-entertainments designed to morph the unsuspecting and perhaps even unconcerned consumer into a soul-dead android who veers spastically between somnambulistic acquiesence to the jackhammer-like abuse meted out to him by his hollywooden overlords and incoherent fits of hideous violence punctuated by the retching of his so-called "opinions," is, to put it simply, an unmitigated jewel....a work of uparallelled genius that we, my friends, simply DO NOT DESERVE TO SEE. It urges us toward the sublime and we stand naked and hopeless before it.
You'd have to be black to follow this humor 
2008-11-27 - It was a decent movie with quite a few laughs. Of course something like this would never happen in real life (a sexy woman comes on to a black man and he refuses [?!?!]), but it was interesting to see the treatment of how something like this *might* have gone down if it actually happened in real life.
Chris Rock's first movie, which we can try to take seriously 
2008-09-18 - In this relatively unnoticed comedy about family (not necessarily for family in this case) life and the problems that many may face when the lust and thrill in a relationship goes stale, The sometimes halarious Chris Rock goes to work in his first feature film. Chris Rock stars as a succesful businessman in Manhatten, with a wonderful wife and two cute children. What went wrong? The love in the marriage was fading and life for him is clearly not the fun crazy life that it was in his early days.
Then an old yet still young lady friend bumps into him and the cherished days seem tangible, and what do you know, she's still in the game. Entranced by her sexiness and livliness. What is Chris to do? Well, I'll tell you that this is a refreshing imprint on the smoky times that comedy is going through, and is worth a look, maybe even a peak.
