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Addicted to Love
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexual content
Starring
Meg Ryan,
Matthew Broderick,
Kelly Preston,
Tchéky Karyo,
Maureen Stapleton,
Nesbitt Blaisdell,
Remak Ramsay,
and
Lee Wilkof
First they got mad. Now they're getting even. Two dumped lovers (Broderick & Ryan) team for comic revenge when their exes team up for romance. (Warner Bros.)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Robert Gordon
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Griffin Dunne
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 23, 1997
Video: October 28, 1997
Theatrical: May 23, 1997
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Misanthropic, cruel, hostile, corrupt, blasphemous and basically pretty evil. I loved it.
88
San Francisco Examiner
Barbara Shulgasser
Ryan has an edge that is extremely becoming…This is her best work yet.
75
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
This twisted romance possesses the soul and edgy atmosphere of an independent film but not quite the conviction.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Karyo -- a big star in France but little known in this country -- has Steve Martin's knack for keeping his dignity while doing outrageous slapstick.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
A deliciously nasty, dark comedy.
70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
It's a tribute to Robert Gordon's nifty screenplay and Dunne's cheerful way with digression that Addicted to Love, even as it broadens into screwball, also deepens into a character study full of surprising left turns.
70
Variety
Leonard Klady
Warm performances that result in hilarity without guilt.
67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
One of the most inventive romantic comedies to come around in some while.
60
Salon.com
Laura Miller
Has the same relationship to the dark emotions it glosses that Disneyland's Jungleboat Cruise ride has to an actual excursion down the Amazon.
60
Empire
Angie Errigo
Ryan and Broderick, while individually first-rate, don't combine as sexily as they ought, making the inevitable outcome a little too pat in an otherwise genre-bucking affair.
50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Ryan's abrasive and rather creepy character is something of a departure for her.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is always a problem in a love story when the rival seems more interesting than the hero, and that's what happens here.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The story is as contrived as it is comical.
50
Time
Richard Schickel
A fine--but not entirely uninteresting—mess. [2 Jun 1997, p. 74]
50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Just a little shy of twisting the knife that extra twist.
50
Washington Post
Eve Zibart
Like a cute version of Jekyll and Hyde.
33
Entertainment Weekly
Bruce Fretts
Commits the cardinal sin of too many modern movies: It never gives the audience a clue why any of these people were ever attracted to one another in the first place. [30 May 1997, p. 54]
20
The New Yorker
Sarah Kerr
A desperately misbegotten screwball comedy.
0
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Ms. Ryan's lean, eagle-eyed golden girl is enough to curdle milk.
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