Ann Morgan, Erika Alexander, J.D. Walsh
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel (Philip Seymour Hoffman) turns to gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with h...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 27, 2003
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Flixster Reviews (417)
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January 16, 2008It's interesting that I watched this movie right after Away From Her. Whereas the latter film explored heavy emotions like loss evenly and with purpose, Love Liza's interest seems to be dragging you through the mud for an hour and a half with little to offer for it. It has its po...( read more)
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February 22, 2007As intimate a character study as I have ever seen. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is heartbreakingly good in the role of a man whose wife has very recently commited suicide. The film is alternately funny and tragic, but never anything less than absolutely real.
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November 14, 2009This film just doesn't work, it's too slow moving for one, too weird and it's generally on the stupid side. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates both try and do a good job but it's not enough to save the film.
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September 2, 2008PSH is supurb as usual, the story is not what you think anmd the twists make it dark and gloomy. but the ending is ironic and full of twists..
Critic Reviews
February 7, 2003
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
February 7, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
There is a kind of attentive concern that Hoffman brings to his characters, as if he has been giving them private lessons, and now it is time for their first public recital. full review
January 31, 2003
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode, and brother Hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense. full review
January 10, 2003
Nick Schager, PopMatters
Love Liza fetishizes grief to the point of abstraction, leaving viewers in an emotional lurch. full review
December 30, 2002
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
At its best the film has some of the unadorned, incisive strangeness of the minimalist American fiction of the 1980's, but it also shows the limitations of minimalism, and feels, even in its relative ... full review
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January 9, 2008This movie is so real that I had to stop it halfway and take a deep breath. Hoffman in his greatest form.
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