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Title: Addicted to Love (1997)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Meg Ryan | ... | Maggie | |
| Matthew Broderick | ... | Sam | |
| Kelly Preston | ... | Linda | |
| Tchéky Karyo | ... | Anton (as Tcheky Karyo) | |
| Maureen Stapleton | ... | Nana | |
| Nesbitt Blaisdell | ... | Ed Green | |
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Remak Ramsay | ... | Professor Wells |
| Lee Wilkof | ... | Carl | |
| Dominick Dunne | ... | Matheson | |
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Susan Forristal | ... | Cecile |
| Larry Pine | ... | Street Comic | |
| Debbon Ayer | ... | Gwen | |
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Maurizio Benazzo | ... | Euro-Chic Man |
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Paolo Calamari | ... | French Bartender |
| Helmar Augustus Cooper | ... | Bus Driver | |
Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life, Linda, leaves him for a suave Frenchman named Anton. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do; go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, intent on winning her back and waiting until she decides to leave her current lover. What Sam does not count on is being joined several weeks later by ultra hip tomboy Maggie, a photographer and motor-cyclist who is determined to get revenge on Anton, her ex-fiance. Hostile at first, the two of them eventually join forces in an attempt to separate the couple, and ruin Anton's life. However, complications ensue when Sam and Maggie start falling for each other. Written by Anonymous
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I thought this movie was pretty average as romantic comedies go, and frighteningly similar to Meg Ryan's previous vehicle "French Kiss", which saw Kevin Kline playing a Frenchman she falls for, enroute to getting her cheating fiancé back. "Addicted To Love" could have easily been the sequel! That aside, my one objection is not only the lack of chemistry between the two leads, but also the fact that we are launched into the action far too quickly. One imagines the writer/director desperate to start the story and not being bothered to establish the relationship between Sam and Linda, before BOOM! She leaves him and Sam is in New York, all within a few minutes and seconds. The credits had barely finished!!
I found the character of Maggie difficult to get a grip on. Independent and wilful, one finds it hard to imagine what she sees in the dappy, love-sick puppy, Sam. They are in such completely different leagues. Sam quips that they got together via "Common interests", but this is not enough somehow, since the characters really do not have anything in common, despite trying to separate their ex-lovers.
**SPOILER WARNING**: In another scene, Sam and Maggie sleep together whilst fantasising that she is Linda and he is Anton. Yet Maggie's justification for sleeping with Sam is not made clear - she hates Anton and frequently says so. If she slept with Sam because she was falling for him this should have been made clearer, since he sleeps with her whilst pretending she is Linda whom he still loves. Although good, perhaps this scene could have been cut as it is confusing and largely irrelevant.
The rest of the film was OK, the pranks were cruel but effective. More focus should have been made on the relationship between the two leads.