Funny About Love (1990)

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29% of users liked it
(1,457 ratings)

The once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between star Gene Wilder and director Leonard Nimoy resulted in the charmingly haphazard and anachronistic Funny About Love. Wilder plays political cartoonist Duffy Bergman, who falls in love with much-younger Meg (Christine Lahti) during a book-signing session.… More The once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between star Gene Wilder and director Leonard Nimoy resulted in the charmingly haphazard and anachronistic Funny About Love. Wilder plays political cartoonist Duffy Bergman, who falls in love with much-younger Meg (Christine Lahti) during a book-signing session. Once married, the old "clash of careers" bugaboo arises: Meg wants to continue working as a chef in a fancy New York restaurant, while Duffy would prefer that she think about starting a family. When it seems as though Meg may be incapable of bearing children, the self-involved Duffy impregnates earthy college coed Daphne (Mary Stuart Masterson). How a happy ending can grow from this complication is a puzzlement. Funny About Love was based--extremely loosely--on a speech once delivered by Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene. The laughs tend to be sporadic, though Stephen Toblowsky scores high marks as a jocular fertility doctor. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: PG-13, 1 hr. 47 min.
Directed By: Leonard Nimoy
Written By: Norman Steinberg, David Frankel
Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy

In Theaters: Sep 21, 1990 Wide
On DVD: Jun 1, 2004
Studio: Paramount Home Video

Critic Reviews

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Funny About Love provides an opportunity to spend 101 minutes in the presence of the most cloying, inane and annoying dialogue I've heard in many a moon, punctuated only by occasional lapses into startling bad manners.
Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com
Directed, with a truly frightening and unerring worship of the banal, by Leonard Nimoy.
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
Were it not for the suicidal feelings you may find yourself with at the end of the 105 minutes, gosh, this might actually be a fun time.
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Sad about careers.

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Phil H

Very limp and soppy romantic comedy about a couple wanting to have a baby, then breaking up in time after they can't have one then they meet other people and eventually after realising they do love each other they get back together again. I only saw this simply because it was a… More
Very limp and soppy romantic comedy about a couple wanting to have a baby, then breaking up in time after they can't have one then they meet other people and eventually after realising they do love each other they get back together again. I only saw this simply because it was a Wilder film and usually most of his films are good fun but this really is a film for the ladies haha not really funny, alittle slapstick here and there but mainly its a light hearted ladies flick about a young couple and their relationships with each other and others, more of a gentle drama directed by Leonard 'Mr Spock' Nimoy of all people!
jay n

Christine Lahti is a fine actress to fine to be stuck in junk like this.

Cast

            Gene Wilder as Duffy Bergman

            Christine Lahti as Meg Lloyd

            Mary Stuart Masterson as Daphne Delillo

            Robert Prosky as E. T

            Anne Jackson as Adele Bergman

            Stephen Tobolowsky as Dr. Hugo Blatt

            Susan Ruttan as Claire Raskin

            Jean De Baer as Vivian

            David Margulies as Dr. Benjamin

            Michael Bofshever as Steve

            Lorenzo Caccialanza as Sotto Voce Maitre d'

            Al Cerullo as Helicopter Pilot

            Paul Collins as Bill Hatcher

            Patrick Ewing as Himself

            Robert Hy Gorman as Roger

            Sherlynn Hicks as Waitress

            Anne Lange as Bobbie

            David Larson as Elevator Operator

            Paul L.Q. Lee as Moving Man

            Wendie Malick as Nurse Nancy

            Elizabeth Morehead as Kathryn

            Andrew Hill Newman as Jerry

            Dave Nicolson as Elevator Operator

            Regis Philbin as Himself

            Justin Ross as Waiter

            Kevin Shaw as Waiter

            Lewis J. Stadlen as Avi

            Celeste Yarnall as Delta Gamma

            Ramy Zada as Ellis Hayden

            Joe Zaloom as Cappucino Vendor

            Michael Snyder as Video Camera Assistant

            Kathryn Miller as Delta Gamma

            Robert T. Shannon as Redhead

            Amanda Mackey-Johnson
            
            Courtney Barilla as Alexandra

            Jeannette Kerner as Delta Gamma

            Freda Foh Shen as Nurse

            Tara Shannon
            
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