Addicted to Love (1997)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Griffin Dunne

Writer (WGA):

Robert Gordon (written by)

Release Date:

23 May 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

A Comedy About Lost Loves And Last Laughs

Plot:

Maggie's and Sam's former partners are in love; she wants revenge and he wants his lost love back, so they work together to break up the happy couple.

Plot Keywords:

Love | Revenge | Monkey | Reference To Lassie | Motor

Cast

Meg Ryan	...	Maggie
Matthew Broderick	...	Sam
Kelly Preston	...	Linda
Tchéky Karyo	...	Anton (as Tcheky Karyo)
Maureen Stapleton	...	Nana
Nesbitt Blaisdell	...	Ed Green
Remak Ramsay	...	Professor Wells
Lee Wilkof	...	Carl
Dominick Dunne	...	Matheson
Susan Forristal	...	Cecile
Larry Pine	...	Street Comic
Debbon Ayer	...	Gwen
Maurizio Benazzo	...	Euro-Chic Man
Paolo Calamari	...	French Bartender
Helmar Augustus Cooper	...	Bus Driver

Also Known As:

Forlorn

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

South Korea:18 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M (original rating) | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Belgium:KT | Chile:14 | Finland:S | Germany:12 (bw) | Iceland:L | Netherlands:AL | Norway:7 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #35298)

Filming Locations:

Centerville, Delaware, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

The food critic who accidentally eats a cockroach is director Griffin Dunne's father, Dominick Dunne.

Goofs:

Continuity: Near the end of the movie, when Maggie is consoling Anton, she takes the strawberries from his pillow with her right hand, shows them to him, then throws them away. Next, in reconciliation, she scratches his head and face with her right hand, spreading strawberry juice all over him again.

Quotes:

Maggie: When I was a kid, my father had this dog that started to get all weak and sickly. He takes it to the vet, he examines it and says a maggot must have laid eggs in the dog's butt. The baby maggots have crawled up, now they've started to grow, and eventually they're gonna eat the dog alive from the inside...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Game K N B: (2007-03-03)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Everybody Loves a Train

Romantic comedy with a rather hard edge

This is a romantic comedy with a rather hard edge, or, to put it differently, a European-style farce with a too cushy ending.

Apparently, this film was conceived as a Meg Ryan vehicle, i.e. as a product suitable for her established screen persona. This was a mistake. The cast choice (and the marketing) make the outcome of the film blatantly obvious and that takes away too much suspense from the viewing experience. Also, the film makers did not have the courage to bring the misfortunes heaped upon Anton Depeaux (played very well by Tcheky Karyo) to their logical conclusion. It's designed as a chick-flick and thus everyone's gotta be happy at the end. A more emotionally ambiguous ending could have turned this into something special.