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75The result is an actor's dream, a film in which the truth of almost every scene has to be excavated out of the debris of social inhibition.
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The film nicely maintains its tone, somewhere between satire and farce. [07 Apr 1990]
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63The result is a one-joke movie.
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60The pace of the direction and-especially-of the screenplay by playwright-television writer John Kostmayer-begins to crawl, weighing down everything. [06 Apr 1990]
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60More problematical is the tone of the film, which attempts to be both compassionate and goofy, though the events are funny only if they are seen as farcical.
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60Despite its mixture of macabre slapstick and broadly stroked caricatures, the film has sleepy-time rhythms; it's easily the pokiest farce I've ever seen.
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50while not without pleasures, I Love You to Death essentially seems a film in search of a tone. [06 Apr 1990]
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50Based on an allegedly true story, this is a dark comedy that begins with a charmingly light touch.... Alas, it's when the tale stays murderous, amateur night dragging into amateur day, that the picture loses both its energy and its edge. [09 Apr 1990]
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50Lawrence Kasdan directed this fair-to-middling black comedy from a script by John Kostmayer, and although the pacing is sluggish in spots, people with a taste for acting as impersonation will enjoy some of the scenery chewing.
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38Kasdan has inexplicably reduced flesh-and-blood characters to cartoons.
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33I Love You to Death is strenuously unclever.
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20I Love You to Death lacks the precision, ferocity and guts needed for black farce.
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10I Love You to Death is a stillborn attempt at black comedy.
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