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When Will I Be Loved

  • 20042004
  • RR
  • 1h 21m
IMDb RATING
4.3/10
3.4K
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Neve Campbell in When Will I Be Loved (2004)
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  • Drama
  • Thriller

Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.

IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • James Toback
  • Writer
    • James Toback
  • Stars
    • Neve Campbell
    • Frederick Weller
    • Dominic Chianese
Top credits
  • Director
    • James Toback
  • Writer
    • James Toback
  • Stars
    • Neve Campbell
    • Frederick Weller
    • Dominic Chianese
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 74User reviews
    • 44Critic reviews
    • 39Metascore
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    Dominic Chianese in When Will I Be Loved (2004)
    Neve Campbell and James Toback in When Will I Be Loved (2004)
    Neve Campbell and Dominic Chianese in When Will I Be Loved (2004)
    Neve Campbell in When Will I Be Loved (2004)
    Neve Campbell and Frederick Weller in When Will I Be Loved (2004)
    Neve Campbell in When Will I Be Loved (2004)
    Neve Campbell and Frederick Weller in When Will I Be Loved (2004)
    Neve Campbell in When Will I Be Loved (2004)
    When Will I Be Loved (2004)
    When Will I Be Loved (2004)
    Neve Campbell in When Will I Be Loved (2004)
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    Neve Campbell
    Neve Campbell
    • Vera Barrieas Vera Barrie
    Frederick Weller
    Frederick Weller
    • Ford Wellesas Ford Welles
    Dominic Chianese
    Dominic Chianese
    • Count Tommaso Lupoas Count Tommaso Lupo
    Ashley Shelton
    • Ashleyas Ashley
    James Toback
    James Toback
    • Professor Hassan Al-Ibrahim Ben Rabinowitzas Professor Hassan Al-Ibrahim Ben Rabinowitz
    Alex Feldman
    Alex Feldman
    • Alexeias Alexei
    Brandon Sommers
    Brandon Sommers
    • Brandonas Brandon
    Oliver 'Power' Grant
    Oliver 'Power' Grant
    • Poweras Power
    Mike Tyson
    Mike Tyson
    • Mike Tysonas Mike Tyson
    James Parris
    • Jamesas James
    Cara Hamill
    Cara Hamill
    • Caraas Cara
    Christina Rotholz
    • Christinaas Christina
    Bridget Lee Hall
    • Bridgetas Bridget
    Thomas Patti
    • Michaelas Michael
    Lori Singer
    Lori Singer
    • Lori Singeras Lori Singer
    Jean-Pierre Vertus
    Jean-Pierre Vertus
    • Jean-Pierreas Jean-Pierre
    Megan Pepin
    Megan Pepin
    • Girl in Park #1as Girl in Park #1
    Erin Omar
    • Girl in Park #2as Girl in Park #2
    • Director
      • James Toback
    • Writer
      • James Toback
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    Storyline

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    Vera is a femme fatale for the 21st century; a beautiful, capricious young woman living in New York whom begins exploring the limits of her sexual and intellectual power. She picks up men on the street and has sex with them in her apartment. She also videotapes a sexual romp with a female lover, and has sexually frank discussions with her potential employer. As the daughter of wealthy, indulgent parents, Vera seems to be improvising her way through the beginning of her life as an adult. Her boyfriend, Ford, is a fast-talking hustler prepared to do anything to make a buck. Aware of Vera's promiscuity, Ford sees a chance to make big money when he meets an aging Italian media mogul, named Count Tommaso, who is enamored of Vera because of her sexuality, her intelligence, and what he perceives as her naiveté. Ford cooks up an idea to pimp Vera out to the Count for $100,000, easy money, if he can only talk Vera into it. Incredibly, she agrees. Everything appears to be going even better than planned. But both men have gravely underestimated Vera, who has an agenda of her own. Ford and the Count unwittingly play right into her hands, and when her plan of deception and manipulation comes to fruition, the results are staggering. —Anonymous
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      • Revenge is a dish best served hot.
    • Genres
      • Drama
      • Thriller
    • Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
      • Rated R for strong sexuality, nudity and language
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Neve Campbell's first nude scene.
    • Goofs
      The painting that Vera is painting in her apartment early in the film is immediately a different painting when the camera changes angle, and then a few scenes later the painting reverts to its original form.
    • Quotes

      [Ford is trying to convince Vera to sleep with the Count for money]

      Ford: I'm a mentor. I'm not a hustler. I'm a conduit, I'm a circuit. Listen... Listen to me very carefully. My whole mission on this planet right now in relation to you is to introduce you to yourself. You know that. You're a deeply sexual human being. You have major erotic power. The easiest thing, and the most selfish, would be to convince you to lend yourself to one person, even if that one person was myself. That would be suffocating to you, and ignoble of me. That's what a hustler would do, and I refuse to hustle. I'm looking to lead you down the path of Ovid and Sappho, D.H. Lawrence, Edna Saint Vincent Millay, to say nothing of the whole hip-hop revolution. It's the path of the Bible: "Seek and you shall find. Know thyself". You're so ready right now to open yourself to discover your capacity for multiple men; multiple in the sense of at least a few. Maybe not at the same time, but sequentially. And - I know I'm getting ahead of myself here and you might not want to hear this because you're at least a year away from being there - but at some point you gonna be ready to explore women. And enjoy them. They already desire you all the time; you're just oblivious to it. But that's down the road, let's stick to the present for now: all that I'm asking is that you meet the Count...

      Vera: [interrupting him] Set it up.

      Ford: [not believing his ears] Really?

    • Connections
      Referenced in Dinner for Five: Episode #4.2 (2005)
    • Soundtracks
      String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1 (Razumovsky)
      Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (as Ludwig Von Beethoven) [attributed as "Written by"]

      Performed by The Budapest String Quartet

      Courtesy of Sony Classical, by arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

    User reviews74

    Review
    Top review
    3/10
    Pretty awful overall, with one good performance
    I found Toback's earlier film Black and White mildly diverting, so gave this one a whirl. The scuttlebutt was that this was Neve Campbell's best (and sexiest) performance so far. Well, that much may be true-ish, but the rest of this film is, in places, almost unwatchably bad.

    Most of the characters (or should I say caricatures - take the Italian mogul: did anybody find this man even remotely believable?) are without a shred of originality, and in the case of Ford, bear virtually no resemblance to human beings of the sort you or I might actually meet. It may be that his relentless hustling is *intended* to show him as a pathetic individual - but there is a fine line between depicting characters we may not like but in whom we can invest some interest as to their fate; and, as happens in this film, showing people who are irredeemably ghastly, and about whose fate we don't give a toss.

    In Black and White, Mike Tyson had a very funny cameo, in which Robert Downey Junior's character tries to seduce him. Here, it looks as if Toback has simply raided his address book and shoehorned as many celebrity cameos as he could into what passes for the plot. Ooh, look, there's Lori Singer! Wow, there's Mike Tyson (again). Ooh, that really is Damon Dash! Toback's own performance as the "hilariously" named cross-cultural enabler is pure smugness in a bottle. The only honest moment is when he confesses to wanting to get into Neve Campbell's knickers. We can only speculate as to whether that is a case of art imitating life.

    And Neve Campbell? Yes, she is good in this. She gets some decent dialogue to get her teeth into and delivers it with aplomb. I still think Wild Things is a better showcase for her talent.

    The incident towards the end of the film was certainly unexpected; but then again, any idiot can make unexpected things happen in a film. The trick is to work up to it in *some* way. Toback is either incapable of doing this, or simply can't be bothered. The dénouement left me shrugging: so what? Who cares about these cardboard cut-outs?
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    • Aug 2, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 24, 2005 (South Korea)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
      • French
    • Also known as
      • When Will I Be Loved?
    • Filming locations
      • Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Little Wing Production
      • Rotholz Pictures
      • RCB Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $159,429
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $29,103
      • Sep 12, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $159,429
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 21 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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