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Addicted to Love
Warner Bros.

Addicted to Love reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 49 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.0 out of 10
based on 19 reviews
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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  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Robert Gordon  
DIRECTED BY: Griffin Dunne  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: October 23, 1997 
Video: October 28, 1997 
Theatrical: May 23, 1997 
RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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100
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Misanthropic, cruel, hostile, corrupt, blasphemous and basically pretty evil. I loved it.
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88
San Francisco Examiner Barbara Shulgasser
Ryan has an edge that is extremely becoming…This is her best work yet.
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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.
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75
ReelViews James Berardinelli
A deliciously nasty, dark comedy.
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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.
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70
Variety Leonard Klady
Warm performances that result in hilarity without guilt.
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67
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
One of the most inventive romantic comedies to come around in some while.
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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.
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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.
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50
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Ryan's abrasive and rather creepy character is something of a departure for her.
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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.
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50
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The story is as contrived as it is comical.
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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.
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50
Washington Post Eve Zibart
Like a cute version of Jekyll and Hyde.
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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.
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0
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Ms. Ryan's lean, eagle-eyed golden girl is enough to curdle milk.
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