True Love

R

Released Sep 5, 1989

1 hr. 44 min.

Comedy

Drama

List

67%

9 Reviews

Tomatometer

39%

1,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

In the Bronx during the late 1980s, marriage-minded Donna (Annabella Sciorra) is engaged to the immature, commitment-phobic Michael (Ron Eldard). When the elaborate wedding plans go into motion, however, Donna begins to have second thoughts, and Michael has the same old commitment issues. The two must work through some nagging doubts; namely, if they are right for one another. With both pairs of feet growing cold, Donna and Michael still have friends and family who expect to see a wedding.

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david f

A big, sprawling, Italian-American film set in a borough of NYC with a realistic depiction of the lead up to, and consummation of, a wedding.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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s r

An interesting look at love in the bronx. It raises good questions about young relationships and about what is important to make things last.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

good rom-com/ chick flick

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

True Love is very much a story about family and neighborhood and Nancy Savoca obviously has an eye for the several generations. This is Savoca's first feature, eliciting nice performances out of neophytes.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

A New York couple have cold feet as they dwindle toward marriage. A collection of bad accents and trite cliches, every plot event of True Love is painfully predictable. Commitment-phobic men, mistakenly suspected adultery, and needs of independence all make up this film, which anyone has seen many times before in many forms. Overall, there's nothing true about True Love.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Audience Member

THere is nothing romantic about this film.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Nancy Savoca

Director

Annabella Sciorra

Donna

Ron Eldard

Michael

Star Jasper

JC

Aida Turturro

Grace

Roger Rignack

Dom

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Roger Ebert

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This is a subtle movie that invites us to read between the lines. It suggests that a lot of couples may be married to marriage rather than to each other.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 4, 2004

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Nancy Savoca is never condescending with her characters. She treats them with affection, and that's why you laugh with them, not at them. [Full review in Spanish]

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Peter Bowen

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True Love renders this Iocal community at once strangely familiar and and culturally foreign. Under the scrutiny of such an ethnographic gaze, perhaps it is not so bad remaining invisible.

May 20, 2020

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Emanuel Levy

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Nancy Savoca's first (and still best) film shows a good, sensitive ear to the lingo and subculture of this ethnic milieu, of both genders. Competing at Sudance Fest in 1989, it won the jury award for best drama.

Rated: A-

Jan 4, 2007

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Michael Szymanski

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Rated: 0/5

Nov 4, 2005

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Rated: 3/5

Sep 27, 2005

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Synopsis

In the Bronx during the late 1980s, marriage-minded Donna (Annabella Sciorra) is engaged to the immature, commitment-phobic Michael (Ron Eldard). When the elaborate wedding plans go into motion, however, Donna begins to have second thoughts, and Michael has the same old commitment issues. The two must work through some nagging doubts; namely, if they are right for one another. With both pairs of feet growing cold, Donna and Michael still have friends and family who expect to see a wedding.

Director: Nancy Savoca
Distributor: United Artists
Production Co: J&M Entertainment
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 5, 1989, Original
Release Date (DVD): May 10, 2005
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.0M
Sound Mix: Surround