Book of Love

Book of Love (2003)

  • 42% of users liked it
    (1,237 ratings)

Writer/director Alan Brown makes his feature-length debut with the comedy drama Book of Love, following his award-winning short film O Beautiful (released as part of Boys Life 4: Four Play). High school history teacher David (Simon Baker) is newly married to the lovely Elaine (Frances O'Connor).… More

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R, 1 hr. 25 min.
Directed By
Alan Brown
Written By
Alan Brown
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Jan 1, 2004 Wide
On DVD
Apr 26, 2005
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

    Wait: When you sleep with a teenager that could have an impact on your marriage?

  • Jon Popick, Planet Sick-Boy

    Upsetting and bleak; a meditative exercise in ice cream, marital infidelity, DisneyWorld, statutory rape, and the Khmer Rouge.

  • Erik Childress, eFilmCritic.com

    So thick with a contrived laughability that your only recourse is to start believing that you're watching a comedy.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • jay n


    Good actors stuck in a clunky disjointed mess of a movie. You never really understand who these people are so the stupid and irrational things the script has them do make no impact on the viewer.

  • Leigh R


    It was okay. Wouldn't watch it again though.

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]In "Book of Love", Chet(Gregory Smith), a 16-year old high school student on his swimming team, works part-time in a local ice cream parlor in a New Jersey suburb. One day, in walks David(Simon Baker), a history teacher at a local all-girls high school… More

  • Leo L


    An interesting film!

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