What Love Is (2006)
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15% of critics liked it
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58% of users liked it
(5,298 ratings)
Poolhall Junkies actor/writer/director Mars Callahan once again pulls triple duty with this battle of the sexes comedy starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Sean Astin, Matthew Lillard, Gina Gershon, and Anne Hesche. It's Valentine's Day, and Sarah (Victoria Pratt) has just kicked longtime boyfriend… More Poolhall Junkies actor/writer/director Mars Callahan once again pulls triple duty with this battle of the sexes comedy starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Sean Astin, Matthew Lillard, Gina Gershon, and Anne Hesche. It's Valentine's Day, and Sarah (Victoria Pratt) has just kicked longtime boyfriend Tom (Gooding, Jr.) to the curb. Now, as Tom's friends Sal (Lillard), Ken (Callahan), George (Astin), and Wayne (Andrew Daly) drop by to discuss the shortcomings of the female gender, Sarah and her friends congregate in the bathroom to bond over stories about sex and relationships. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Mars Callahan
- Genres
- Comedy
- In Theaters
- Apr 1, 2008 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Shrill, abrasive, cartoonishly over-the-top and badly titled.
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Ted Fry, Seattle Times
It could be that What Love Is is what lovers of either gender can like, thanks to equal parts misogynistic machismo and locker-room girl talk, all of it tied together with just a little bit of cozy romantic reality.
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Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
Gooding is solid in the leading-man role. He has some of the best lines, and he's pretty much the only character you could stand to hang out with in real life.
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Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
Now and then there is something strangely right about films this defiantly wrongheaded, but What Love Is never rises above the leaden, overbearing qualities of Callahan's dialogue and staging.
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Paige Wiser, Chicago Sun-Times
What Love Is overflows with mind-numbing patter, bizarrely delivered with the arch formality of David Mamet, with the net effect of being yelled at for no reason.
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Cast
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Cuba Gooding Jr.
as Tom
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Matthew Lillard
as Sal
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Mars Callahan
as Ken
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Sean Astin
as George
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Andrew Daly
as Wayne
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Anne Heche
as Laura
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Gina Gershon
as Rachel
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Tamala Jones
as Katherine
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Shiri Appleby
as Debbie
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Judy Tylor
as Amy
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Victoria Pratt
as Sara
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Gillian Shure
as Karen
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T.C. Carson
as Kwame
