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List Price: $9.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 10984
Released: July 29, 2003 |
| Our Price: $4.67 |
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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:
FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
2008-09-30 - I can never see this movie enough. I still laugh hysterically every time I see it...get this movie, you won't regret it!!!!! LOL through the whole thing. Had to pause it several times just so I could finish laughing and not miss a minute!!!!!!!!!!
The Real Skinny 
2008-02-09 - This movie is based on the real life antics that occurred here in Allentown, Pa. to a friend of mine, his family and employees.
Here's the story: "When Anthony Toto, 37, a pizza-shop owner in Allentown, Pa., put up $50,000 bail for his wife Frances Lenore, the local police and others in the community were stunned. The reason: according to charges filed by the district attorney, Frances had conspired to murder her husband -- not once but twice.
The bizarre case began on Jan. 25. That night, prosecutors contend, Anthony Bruno, the 20-year-old boyfriend of Toto's 17-year-old daughter Elizabeth, crept into Toto's bedroom, located the .25-cal. gun that Toto kept near his bed and fired a bullet into his head. Toto was grievously but not fatally wounded.
Then his wife Frances allegedly began force-feeding him large doses of barbiturates, which succeeded only in putting him into a semiconscious state. Two days later, according to police, two friends of Anthony Bruno's, hired by Frances for $500, showed up in the bedroom to finish the job. They were Ronald Barlip, 19, and his cousin Donald, 18. The bullet one of them allegedly fired entered an inch from Toto's heart, but it too proved not to be lethal.
Police, tipped off by an informant, entered the Toto house two days later and found Toto asleep, breathing heavily: doctors later speculated that the barbiturates he had been given may have saved his life by drastically lowering his metabolism and retarding the bleeding.
Police arrested Frances, Bruno, the Barlips and the two Toto children, Elizabeth and Anthony. Toto was released from the hospital two weeks later, with the first bullet still lodged in his skull. He says he intends to stand by his family during the coming court proceedings. Said an Allentown police detective: "He loves her." The district attorney's office is said to be worried about the case: Tony Toto promises to be a hostile witness." Tony's wife was found guilty and sentenced to time in Muncy, Pa. women's correctional facility. Tony moved the family there to be near her. Art and Linda Beers wrote the non-fiction book that was bought for the movie. After coming out to L.A. to do the screenplay, they were ripped off for all their efforts by not getting any credit for their work. The credit for it went to John Kostmayer who didn't do the real digging for the story, he just adjusted the work of the Beers'.
Love, Pizza, Murder, And A Real Fun Cast 
2007-11-22 - This 1990 release is one of those quirky little comedy movies overlooked almost immediately after release. But, unlike others, this cast is loaded with talent: Tracey Ullman, Kevin Kline, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, and Keanu Reeves. Kevin Kline's "Joey Boca" is a gem of characterization. [Imagine a Joey Buttafuoco with actual warmth and real charm, yet retaining the crassness.] Kevin Kline plays this endearing pizzamaking/Lothario to the hilt, complete with Italian accent. And William Hurt and Keanu Reeves as the stoner hitmen "Harlan" and "Marlon" hired to kill him are Beckett characters on dope. Everything's improbable and yet somehow it all works beautifully. Recommended: Order an extra large pizza, buy some beer, and invite some friends over who really like to laugh.
[This movie perhaps deserves more than the three lousy stars I gave it, but unlike other armchair critics, I'm not just giving out my four- and five-stars like bon-bons. The is a VERY GOOD little movie.]
Yeah...He looked like Abraham Lincoln. Comin' up to bat...
2007-11-07 - Years ago I was awake at 2 am watching this movie for the twentieth time or so when my 55 year old Japanese ex-pat mom came stumbling out of her bedroom to use the restroom. She came back and was staring at the movie with me awhile but soon she sat down. And then she was laughing her big silent laugh that is reserved for only those things that are truly hilarious. I don't own that many movies but this is one that I can't live without. If you love movies with a perfect cast and about a million quotable lines then please be sure to try this one.
Soooo funny!
2007-08-14 - First of all, I love Kevin Kline; I think he is a brilliant actor and I really enjoy nearly everything he's ever done. Put him together with a wonderful cast that includes Joan Plowright and Tracey Ullman, and wow...this is just laughing-so-hard-there's-tears-rolling-down-your-face funny. Joan Plowright is probably my favorite character but the two stoners are very close. Keanu Reeves plays his very best role here; maybe because he doesn't have to work very hard? River Phoenix is part of the cast too, but I could take or leave his character. Sorry, Phoenix fans; I know he's dead, and that is a tragedy, but his part just isn't very interesting in this film. However, one of my favorite parts is when the mother (Plowright) spends time choosing the music to put on the record player to mask the sound of the gunshot. She doesn't want her daughter (Ullman) to put on Madonna. "Rosalie, you know I love Johnny Mathis!" Interesting to note that Heather Graham and Victoria Jackson both have bit parts in the film. Overall, a very silly film, and that's just the way I like it.
