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List Price: $9.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 4062
Released: July 29, 2003 |
| Our Price: $4.26 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Academy Award® Winner Kevin Kline (1988 Best Actor in a Supporting Role - A Fish Called Wanda) Tracey Ullman Academy Award® Winner William Hurt (1985 Best Actor in a Leading Role - Kiss of the Spider Woman) River Phoenix Academy Award® Winner Joan Plowright (1992 Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Enchanting April) and Keanu Reeves star in this bawdy comedy based on the true story of a woman who tried to kill her husband ... four times! Comedienne Tracey Ullman is Rosalie Boca the devoted wife of a philandering pizza maker (Kline). When Rosalie learns that he's been squeezing more than just tomatoes her homicidal instincts take over. With the help of a New Age busboy (Phoenix) drug-addled cousins Harlan and Marlon (Hurt and Reeves) and her own mother (Plowright) Rosalie attempts to send Joey to that big bed in the sky. But love ultimately triumphs in this stranger-than-fiction comedy from the director of THE BIG CHILL and THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST.System Requirements:Running Time 97 MinsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 043396103399 Manufacturer No: 10339
Description of I Love You to Death:
This spotty black comedy from Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill)--based on a true story--stars Kevin Kline as a womanizing pizzeria owner whose mousy wife (Tracey Ullman) tries multiple ways of murdering him with the aid of sundry friends and hired hands. The film never picks up the necessary momentum or develops the necessary tone to drive it, and one is left picking and choosing which of the performers is at least adequately entertaining. Kline is good but perhaps a bit too theatrical, and Joan Plowright is hilarious as his mother-in-law. The funniest joke in the whole thing belongs to William Hurt and Keanu Reeves as deeply-stoned, would-be-killers who emerge from a taxi and look as if they can't remember what planet they're on. --Tom Keogh
I Love You to Death Reviews:
A Silly but Fun Murder? 
2009-10-04 - I first watched this movie because of a difficult relationship. It was recommended because the lead, played by Kevin Kline, was like my boyfriend: you needed to hit him over the head with your issues to get him to pay attention. Kline's character, like my boyfriend at the time, thinks he is living in paradise. Kline loves his work, his children, and his wife - and his array of mistresses. Why all the mistresses? "I gotta lotta hormones." His wife, played by Tracey Ullman, decides she's fed up with his playing around and that she will murder him. With the help of her mother (Joan Plowright) and a young male friend (River Phoenix), she sets out to do so - and hi-jinks ensue.
You have to wonder how the husband can miss all the mayhem going on around him, but he does. When the wife brings in a couple of stoners to help her get rid of him (William Hurt and Keanu Reeves, Keanu doing some of the best acting I've ever seen him do), Kline the clueless welcomes them and offers food and drink. Don't despair, though; it all works out in the end. Funny and yet somehow believable, this one is worth watching and having.
Hilariously Delicious! 
2009-09-11 - I remember watching this film as a child and finding it hysterical. Watching it again as an adult, when I am able to catch more of the jokes, made it even more hilarious. The performances are terrific, with Kevin Kline creating one of his funniest characters. He disappears completely into the idiotic, adulterous Joey, and never misses a step with his Italian accent. Tracy Ullman for once plays the straight (wo)man, and proves she has the strength to carry such a task. River Phoenix is wonderfully odd and idiosyncratic, and the fact that he doesn't really fit in works well for his part in the film. Of course the duo of William Hurt and Keanu Reeves is one of the high points of the movie, and it is amazing how watching two morons attempt to even walk and talk can make your day. My favorite character, however, is Joan Plowright's Mama Nadja, who is naively devilish and innocently sadistic... a combo that seems impossible, yet one she manages to pull off beautifully.
The fact that the film is based on a true story makes the plot even more uproarious, and I don't think a 5 second span of time elapsed when I wasn't smiling. For light-hearted, ridiculous fun, I highly recommend this film. Enjoy!
Love
2009-08-17 - I love this movie! Tracy Ulman and Kevin Kline are great and have a wonderful supporting cast. I don't purchase many dvds but this one I'm really glad to have in my collection!
Guilty Pleasure 
2009-07-12 - I remember one year watching on video all of the top ten films for that year, I remember that I enjoyed one of them. Critics seem to speak to everything except what people really like. This is a film just to enjoy, Kline is at his funniest and the supporting rolls are all actors I love to watch. Perhaps too I see a little of Joey in many of the men I've known and perhaps we all need to know someone who loved us enough to kill us!
DVD I LOVE YOU TO DEATH
2009-02-25 - THis is really a funny movie. Kevin Kline is shows off his really funny side in this one. The whole plott, keeps you laughing.
Great acting by all and never a dull moment.
