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This spotty black comedy from Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill)--based on a true story--stars Kevin Kline as a womanizing pizzeria owner whose mousy wife (Tracey Ullman) tries multiple ways of mu...( read more  read more... )rdering him with the aid of sundry friends and hired hands. The film never picks up the necessary momentum or develops the necessary tone to drive it, and one is left picking and choosing which of the performers is at least adequately entertaining. Kline is good but perhaps a bit too theatrical, and Joan Plowright is hilarious as his mother-in-law. The funniest joke in the whole thing belongs to William Hurt and Keanu Reeves as deeply-stoned, would-be-killers who emerge from a taxi and look as if they can't remember what planet they're on. --Tom Keogh

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R, 97 min.

Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan

Release Date: April 6, 1990

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DVD Release Date: July 29, 2003

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  • September 29, 2009
    Great comedy, one of Kevin Kline?s funnier performances!
  • July 11, 2009
    Black comedy with a great cast about a wife who tries to kill her husband after she catches him having an affair.
  • September 11, 2007
    I Love You To Death tells a -true- story about a cheating husband trying to be knock off by his wife. Kevin Kline is excellent in this modest, very well-cast, though not entirely successful black comedy about a betrayed woman (Tracey Ullman) and her mother Joan Plowright trying t...( read more)o kill husband Kline with the help of friend River Phoenix and nutty blokes Keanu Reeves and William Hurt. Every character is a different character, and that is partly what makes this movie so funny, it's like a commune of different personalities put in a certain situation, and what is funny is the way in which they each try to deal with it. I Love You to Death includes many of the best elements of the blackest comedies you will ever see, but without leaving you with a bitter aftertaste.
  • May 20, 2007
    An unfunny farce starring unfunny comedienne Tracy Ullman who keeps trying and failing to kill her unfaithful husband, played like a sitcom character by Kevin Kline. Only Keanu Reeves and William Hurt's inept stoners raise a smile, and it's got a real feeling of desperation about...( read more) it. And the fact it's based on a true story seems rather tasteless.
  • October 4, 2006
    More people need to see this movie!
  • November 23, 2009
    How crazy is it that this is a true story! When it came out, i saw them all on Oprah, and they were all as funny as the characters in here.
  • November 13, 2009
    Quel che si dice black comedy.
  • September 24, 2009
    i just saw this on HBO and it's the kind of movie you tend to look for things not to like it but end up loving it. the actors we're great comedians, the story was funny and heartwarming at the same time. i enjoyed it.
  • August 31, 2009
    Awesomeness ! Again, Rip River Pheonix - Devo <3
  • July 5, 2009
    This is a really funny movie you'll love to watch and buy and keep in your collection

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  • teixeirademello3
    February 14, 2007
    Great great movie! Made to be seen in the middle of the night, laughing your ass out. Kevin Kline is perfect here, as an italian stallion pizza man, but that's not great thing... Everything and everybody's perfect in I Love You to Death.

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