I Love Your Work (2004)
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22% of critics liked it
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42% of users liked it
(5,081 ratings)
A hot young celebrity discovers fame can be a toxic substance in this independent drama. Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is a successful actor in his late twenties who would seem to have it made. Gray is married to an attractive actress with a solid career of her own, Mia Lang (Franka Potente),… More A hot young celebrity discovers fame can be a toxic substance in this independent drama. Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is a successful actor in his late twenties who would seem to have it made. Gray is married to an attractive actress with a solid career of her own, Mia Lang (Franka Potente), he's got several projects in the works, he gets lots of fan mail, and he gets to hang out at ritzy parties with his heroes. But Gray is far from happy; his marriage to Mia is starting to fall apart, and he's being driven to distraction by his obsessive belief that a fan is stalking him. As Gray struggles to separate his delusions from reality, he finds himself indulging in a bit of stalking of his own, as he begins following John (Joshua Jackson), a clerk at a video store who is a big fan of his movies. The way Gray sees it, John is happier than he is, John's pretty wife, Jane (Marisa Coughlan), loves him while Mia doesn't care for him any more, and all in all he'd just as soon trade lives with the guy. In the midst of all this, Gray has recently run into Shana (Christina Ricci), a former flame he'd like to reconnect with. Directed by actor Adam Goldberg, I Love Your Work features a number of major stars in cameo roles, including Vince Vaughn, Jason Lee, and Elvis Costello. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Adam Goldberg
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
- In Theaters
- Nov 4, 2005 Wide
- Studio
- ThinkFilm
Critic Reviews
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Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
What is so dreadful about unearned fame and undeserved riches that warrants this faux-Antonioni despair?
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Kyle Smith, New York Post
At last, Adam Goldberg has given us his 8 1/2. It's an ambitious rumination on fame, reality, love, loss and regret that falls so far short, he should have called it 2 1/8.
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Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Working with a self-consciously urgent, neo-noir style, Goldberg seems intent on expressing a meaningful message of some kind. It's too bad, then, that he has chosen such a shallow subject.
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Directed by the young actor Adam Goldberg, "I Love Your Work is an attempt to say something interesting about modern celebrity.
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Jan Stuart, Newsday
I Love Your Work gets the dissonance of the celebrity lifestyle to a T. But the self-reflexive strategy of Goldberg and co-writer Adrian Butchart is too brainy by half.
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Cast
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Giovanni Ribisi
as Gray Evans
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Franka Potente
as Mia Lang
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Christina Ricci
as Shana
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Shalom Harlow
as Charlotte
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Jared Harris
as Yehud
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Judy Greer
as Samantha
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Marisa Coughlan
as Jane
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Joshua Jackson
as John
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Vince Vaughn
as Stiev
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Elvis Costello
as Himself
- Randall Batinkoff
- Glen Campbell
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Jason Lee
as Stalker
- Dan Bucatinsky
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Rick Hoffman
as Louis
- Bob Sattler
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Lake Bell
as Felicia
- Haylie Duff
- Holly King
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Eric Siegel
as Phil
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David Alan Graf
as Zoo Policeman
