Fool for Love (1985)
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75% of critics liked it
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40% of users liked it
(1,235 ratings)
Though there are several actors in Fool for Love, two share the majority of screen time: Sam Shepard as Eddie, and Kim Basinger as May. May toils away at a fleabag motel; Eddie is her former love, long absent. Unexpectedly re-entering May's life, Eddie picks up where he left off, and soon the… More Though there are several actors in Fool for Love, two share the majority of screen time: Sam Shepard as Eddie, and Kim Basinger as May. May toils away at a fleabag motel; Eddie is her former love, long absent. Unexpectedly re-entering May's life, Eddie picks up where he left off, and soon the couple is alternately bickering violently and making love with equal fervor. Peripheral characters include Harry Dean Stanton as a boozed-up bum, Martha Crawford as an aristocratic would-be murderer, and Randy Quaid as the current man in the heroine's life. This one-two punch of iconoclastic playwright Sam Shepard and unconventional director Robert Altman proved a failure at the box-office and with critics. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Robert Altman
- Written By
- Sam Shepard
- Genres
- Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1985 Limited
- Studio
- Cannon Films
Critic Reviews
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
Though most of the tension of the theatrical presentation is gone, the movie preserves a lot of the play's lunatic humor. It also understands the Shepard concern for characters who have somehow found themselves cut loose from any social roots.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Altman's staging only underlines the pretentious vagaries built into Shepard's concept.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
With Fool for Love, he has succeeded on two levels that seem opposed to each other. He has made a melodrama, almost a soap opera, in which the characters achieve a kind of nobility.
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Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
The basic friction between Altman's lightness and Shepard's portentousness serves the movie in rich and ever-expanding ways, and not just because you can't ever predict how the narrative will swerve.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It seems like a transplanted drama from the 1950s.
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Cast
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Sam Shepard
as Eddie
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Kim Basinger
as May
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Harry Dean Stanton
as Old Man
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Randy Quaid
as Martin
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Martha Crawford
as May's mother
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Louise Egolf
as Eddie's mother
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Sura Cox
as Teenage May
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Jonathan Skinner
as Teenage Eddie
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April Russell
as Young May
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Deborah McNaughton
as The Countess
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Lon Hill
as Mr. Valdez
