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- 1993
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1993
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Summary A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
Directed By: Peter Bogdanovich
Written By: Carol Heikkinen
- 1993
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1993
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
The Thing Called Love
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7.8
Where to Watch
Summary A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
Directed By: Peter Bogdanovich
Written By: Carol Heikkinen
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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42% Positive
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32% Mixed
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26% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
46
42% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
32% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
26% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
And the movie stands as a fitting memorial to River Phoenix, whose performance lingered in my mind for days after seeing it. [12 Nov 1993]
Mathis and Bullock are especially good, and Phoenix and Mulroney, playing out a jealousy-prone friendship as if they were Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottoms in Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, do a fair job with their roles.
The whole movie is something of a country-music clich, and it takes all of your imagination to be as enthusiastic about the characters' singing as they are. But The Thing Called Love is worth a look on the big screen. [16 July 1999]
It's a genial and mostly well-crafted picture, if hardly one that breaks new ground. [27 Aug 1993, p.L21]
Despite her underwritten character, Mathis easily takes top acting honors with equal parts toughness and tenderness.
Embraces its many cliches like they were nuggets of gold.
This is stilted stuff. The acting is disjointed, the movie should be subtitled Three Actors in Search of Their Characters. River Phoenix gives a somnambulant impersonation of Christian Slater impersonating Jack Nicholson, and Samantha Mathis spends much of the movie trying to figure out exactly who her character is.
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