Death in Love (2009)
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47% of critics liked it
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47% of users liked it
(10,903 ratings)
Writer/director Boaz Yakin explores the burdens carried by the descendants of those who survived with this family drama about a woman (Jacqueline Bisset) who managed to live through her harrowing stint in a Nazi concentration camp, and her two dysfunctional sons. Having managed to survive in a Nazi… More Writer/director Boaz Yakin explores the burdens carried by the descendants of those who survived with this family drama about a woman (Jacqueline Bisset) who managed to live through her harrowing stint in a Nazi concentration camp, and her two dysfunctional sons. Having managed to survive in a Nazi concentration camp by seducing the doctor who carried out experimental surgeries on the prisoners, a young Jewish woman moves to New York and starts a family. Years later, her two grown sons seem poised to become casualties of their mother's desperate past. Her eldest son (Josh Lucas) works at a fraudulent modeling agency that profits off the dreams of fame seekers. His psychosexual escapades and intellectual diatribes act as a barrier to the outside world, yet just when it seems that his life has lost all meaning, a charming young co-worker (Adam Brody) helps him to realize that in order to survive, he will have to embrace change. Meanwhile, the highly erratic mother and her younger son (Lukas Haas) have become locked in a compulsive, co-dependent cycle that now threatens to consume them both. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Boaz Yakin
- Written By
- Boaz Yakin
- Genres
- Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Jul 17, 2009 Wide
- Studio
- Screen Media
Critic Reviews
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Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Death in Love is occasionally pretentious but always riveting.
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Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Yakin and his cast are up to the job, but the current they tap into is so charged it proves overpowering. Still, their bravery is commendable.
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Lou Lumenick, New York Post
There's something seriously wrong when you assemble actors this good -- and can't believe a single stilted word coming out of their mouths.
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
How do you explain a movie as hermetic and perverse and ultimately repugnant as Death in Love?
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Christy Lemire, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It's not as if we learn anything or feel any insight or catharsis from watching his characters destroy themselves and others.
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Cast
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Josh Lucas
as Eldest Son
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Jacqueline Bisset
as Mother
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Lukas Haas
as Youngest Son
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Adam Brody
as Talent Agent
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Vanessa Kai
as Agency Head
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Emma Bell
as Young Girl
- Carrington Vilmont
- Betty Gilpin
- Morena Baccarin
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Stu Richel
as Father
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Kelli Giddish
as Young Mother
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Elizabeth Newman
as The Waitress
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Jean Brassard
as Young Girl's Father
