Love and Human Remains (1993)
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67% of critics liked it
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66% of users liked it
(891 ratings)
Based upon a play by screenwriter Brad Fraser, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Denys Arcand's dark-humored drama Love and Human Remains follows the lives of a group of young Canadians, with a particular focus on their romantic and sexual experiences. The central… More Based upon a play by screenwriter Brad Fraser, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Denys Arcand's dark-humored drama Love and Human Remains follows the lives of a group of young Canadians, with a particular focus on their romantic and sexual experiences. The central characters are two roommates, David and Candy. The cynical, witty David is a former television actor turned waiter, the lonely, dissatisfied Candy a book critic; the two were formerly lovers, before David proclaimed his homosexuality. Candy is also questioning her sexuality, having begun a lesbian affair after wondering if her failures with men indicates she might be happier with a woman; meanwhile, David is becoming acquainted with Kane, a handsome, young busboy of uncertain sexuality who idolizes the older David. The other members of the ensemble are also somehow connected to the roommates, through friendship or romance, including Benita, a young dominatrix and part-time psychic, and Bernie, a boastful but insecure young businessman. The couplings and shifting relationships of these characters are intercut with the rather more severe story of a serial murderer who has been terrorizing the city's women, allowing Arcand to place the film's melodramatic elements in an edgier context. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
- Directed By
- Denys Arcand
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1993 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The result is kind of a mess, but an intriguing one; it's not a very good movie, but you don't stop watching it.
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Posits friendship as a sacrament in the lives of some amoral urban characters
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Wickedly funny and wickedly moving
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Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
'm still working on figuring out "the moral of the story"
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Cast
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Thomas Gibson
as David
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Ruth Marshall
as Candy
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Cameron Bancroft
as Bernie
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Mia Kirshner
as Benita
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Joanne Vannicola
as Jerri
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Matthew Ferguson
as Kane
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Rick Roberts
as Bartender
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Aidan Devine
as Sal
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Serge Houde
as Cowboy
- Barbara Jones
- Gary McKeehan
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Karen Young
as Singer
- Joan Heney
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Maurice Podbrey
as Theatre Director
- Harry Stanjofski
- Charles S. Doucet
