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Book of Love

Play trailer Poster for Book of Love R Released Jan 18, 2004 1h 23m Comedy Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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A teenager (Gregory Smith) befriends a happily married couple (Frances O'Connor, Simon Baker), then has an amorous encounter with the man's wife.

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Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Wait: When you sleep with a teenager that could have an impact on your marriage? Rated: 3/5 May 15, 2005 Full Review Jon Popick Planet S Magazine Upsetting and bleak; a meditative exercise in ice cream, marital infidelity, DisneyWorld, statutory rape, and the Khmer Rouge. Rated: 5/10 Apr 9, 2004 Full Review Erik Childress eFilmCritic.com So thick with a contrived laughability that your only recourse is to start believing that you're watching a comedy. Rated: 0.5/4 Feb 18, 2004 Full Review Reel.com Rated: 3.5/4 Feb 18, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Frances O'Connor is spectacular, and Simon Baker does a great job too. Illustrates how messy life can get where other movies would tie things up in a bow and all three main actors phenomenally portray the confusion, denial, regret, fear when faced with emotions they dont understand. Some themes that may upset, but a great watch. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member too disjointed. Individual performances are often well done. Baker, as usually, conveys a great deal of emotion during the hard dramatic scenes. But characters behavior is not understandable or clear. It like reading a book that is missing pages. And seriously, at the end, the wife seems crazy. And the husband broken for life. Almost sorry I watched. Do not recommend except for hardcore fans of the actors who just want to see everything they have done. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Some ppl choose to ignore the problems in their marriage, become detached,but just there. By the time you come out of denial you realize the pain and hurt of cracks in the marriage is far less painful and easier dealt with than infidelity in your marriage. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member wonderfully cast but essentially predictable from beginning to end Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Okay film, simon bakers good in it but its kinda depressing Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Elaine (Frances O'Connor) and David (Simon Baker) seem to have the perfect marriage. But everything changes when they meet Chet (Gregory Smith), an innocent 15 year old boy full of youthful wonder. The threesome form an immediate bond, but a momentary lapse in judgment threatens to rupture the core of the trio's seemingly idyllic lives. also stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Joanna Adler, Sabria Grdevich, Ari Graynor, Beth MacDonald and Brett Tabor. directed by Alan Brown. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A teenager (Gregory Smith) befriends a happily married couple (Frances O'Connor, Simon Baker), then has an amorous encounter with the man's wife.
Director
Alan Brown
Producer
Robert Ahrens
Screenwriter
Alan Brown
Production Co
Banner Entertainment
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 18, 2004, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 23, 2017
Runtime
1h 23m