MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Up 200 this week

I Love You to Death (1990)

 -  Comedy | Crime  -  6 April 1990 (USA)
6.2
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 6.2/10 from 8,429 users   Metascore: 45/100
Reviews: 42 user | 16 critic | 13 from Metacritic.com

Joey owns a pizza parlor, and is married to Rosalee, and is a major womanizer. Rosalee goes to extremes when she finds he has been cheating.

Director:

Writer:

Watch Trailer
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 10000 titles created 2 months ago
 
a list of 3627 titles created 1 month ago
 
a list of 309 titles created 27 May 2011
 
a list of 2696 titles created 3 months ago
 
a list of 2555 titles created 5 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: I Love You to Death (1990)

I Love You to Death (1990) on IMDb 6.2/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of I Love You to Death.

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  

In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.

Director: Charles Crichton
Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline
Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this town (on the French Mediterranean coast) aint big... See full summary »

Director: Frank Oz
Stars: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly
My Blue Heaven I (1990)
Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.1/10 X  

An all too uptight FBI agent must protect a larger than life mobster with a heart of gold, currently under witness protection in the suburbs.

Director: Herbert Ross
Stars: Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack
Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  

Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins--an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners--comes in to defend them.

Director: Jonathan Lynn
Stars: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei
Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  

A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.

Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and 1 more credit »
Stars: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold
Quick Change (1990)
Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X  

Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible.

Directors: Howard Franklin, Bill Murray
Stars: Bill Murray, Dale Grand, Geena Davis
Comedy
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.2/10 X  

A bitter ex-husband. A put upon momma's boy. Both want their respective spouse and mother dead, but who will pull it off?

Director: Danny DeVito
Stars: Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kim Greist
The Freshman (1990)
Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.3/10 X  

Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Bergman
Stars: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby
Office Space (1999)
Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  

Comedic tale of company workers who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss.

Director: Mike Judge
Stars: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman
To Die For (1995)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X  

Suzanne Stone is an aspiring TV personality who will do anything to be in the spotlight- including enlisting 3 teenagers to kill her husband.

Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix
Cadillac Man (1990)
Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.4/10 X  

Joe's a car salesman with a problem. He has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (... See full summary »

Director: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed
Analyze This (1999)
Comedy | Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X  

A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure mob boss.

Director: Harold Ramis
Stars: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow
Edit

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
...
...
...
Nadja, Rosalie's Mother
...
...
...
...
Lt. Larry Schooner
...
Sgt. Carlos Wiley
Victoria Jackson ...
Lacey
...
Joey's Mother
...
Carla Boca
...
Dominic Boca
...
Bridget
...
Donna Joy
John Kostmayer ...
Benny
Edit

Storyline

Joey works with Rosalie in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the question, so she and her mother and her best friend decide to kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey who remains oblivious to their attempts. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Taglines:

An unbelievable story that's incredibly true. See more »

Genres:

Comedy | Crime

Certificate:

R | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

 »
Edit

Details

Country:

Release Date:

6 April 1990 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Ich liebe Dich zu Tode  »

Box Office

Gross:

$16,186,793 (USA)
 »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

(Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

Loosely based on the true story of Frances Toto and her four unsucessful attempts to kill her cheating husband, Anthony Toto, in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1984. Anthony spent four days in bed after being drugged and shot by Frances and her friends; who spent four years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder. See more »

Goofs

When the family is arguing at the restaurant and the waitress can't put the food on the table, she says that she'll "just come back later" and walks away with the food. But when the son interrupts the argument, saying that he hurt his finger, they suggest just eating their meals and do so even though the waitress never came back with the food. See more »

Quotes

Rosalie Boca: They look like drug addicts.
Devo Nod: Well, they are drug addicts.
Rosalie Boca: Oh my God. You hired drug addicts?
Devo Nod: Who'd you expect me to hire? The Red Cross?
Nadja: They seem like very polite boys.
Rosalie Boca: I don't like having drug addicts in my house.
Nadja: Oh no, Rosalie. Don't think of them as drug addicts. Think of them as killers.
See more »


Soundtracks

"Felicia"
Written by Warren Wiegratz & Peter Safir
Performed by Oceans
Courtesy of Pro Jazz
See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
Strange-But-True Characters In Dark Comedy
24 March 2006 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

A surprise hit....at least with me. I found this dark comedy hilarious in spots and so-so in others, but overall a funny movie. With comedy that's what happens anyway: some jokes connect; others don't. Most are pretty good in here but beware: some of the jokes are in poor taste, but that's a dark comedy for you. Also, some Catholics might be offended because the film takes some shots at them, or at least people who go overboard in rationalizing their sins, as Kevin Kline does in here.

There is an odd assortment of actors in here and they all contribute to the fun: Kline, Tracey Ullman, William Hurt, River Phoenix, Keannu Reeves, Joan Plowright and James Gammon.

Supposedly, this film was based on a real-life happening, which makes it all the more interesting and lending credence to the saying that "truth is stranger than fiction."

Plowright almost steals the show from Kline and Ullman, the husband-and-wife team who have problems because of Kline's persistent cheating on her. Plowright in Ullman's mother and has some of the best lines in the film as mother and daughter plot how to kill the immoral Kline.

Phoenis plays a young New Age devotee and Hurt and Reeves are funny as two totally stoned-out hit men. Hurt is particularly good.

This movie is so-so to start until Ullman finds her husband cheating. Then, after a heart-wrenching minute or so, she and her mother plot to kill the unfaithful spouse. The comedy then goes full out as they hire these really goofy hit men and things don't go smoothly. The ending is quite different and quite touching with a very good message....which is all I will say in case you haven't seen this.


27 of 30 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
My favorite line pelirroja
Black Comedies vicsecret079
Who's that attractive woman? guido_thepimp-1
I Love This Movie to Death lawsonfam
Who's Marlon James? IamMyna
can anyone explain? gracie2a2
Discuss I Love You to Death (1990) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?