Funny About Love

PG-13

1990

1h 41m

Romance

Comedy

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As a political cartoonist (Gene Wilder) and his bride (Christine Lahti) fail to conceive, he and a sorority girl (Mary Stuart Masterson) succeed.

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Steve D

Definitely not funny.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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anthony b

Not funny. Not romantic. Not even human. Just godawful. And that's what I get for watching a movie made by Spock... Did Leonard Nimoy direct this thing in Klingon?

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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A couples marriage is threatened when they can't conceive a child.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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simon d

Gene Wilder in his phase of making disappointingly unfunny films. This is marginly better than some of the others but it's still just a lame romcom that is instantly forgettable.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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directed by leonard nimoy

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Films like this are a miracle. How in the world could this movie have been made this way? Didn't people on this film say that the insanely bad script could simply not work? FUNNY ABOUT LOVE, directed by Leonard Nimoy (a very, very innapropriate choice for a movie like this) is one of the most tasteless, awkward, innapropriate, clumsy and idiotic movies I've seen. It is such an excuriating experience, it's like being told the members of your family are all dead, then someone says, "I was just kidding." I don't know what that feels like (Thank God), but I imagine the kind of pain and anger someone would feel if news like that were broke to them is what I felt during this movie. The dialogue in this movie is so shockingly bad, it's not unintentionally funny- it's just unpleasantly godawful. There are lines like "He hates the coffee!" "No, I hate the coughing! I hate all the coughing!" or "Who is the Bulgarian bear wrestler who made this?" Christine Lahti (very pretty, thin woman with American accent): "I am the Bulgarian bear wrestler." With dialogue this bad, the movie sinks and dies a very quick death, and then is hit yet again and again with the same method of death. It's like being shot once and then dying, and then the psycho killer shoots his victim again, and again, and again. There is one scene in a basketball room with Patrick Ewing that is so tasteless and so innapropriate. While Gene Wilder (the main star of this movie) and Mary Stuart Masterson are together seeing Ewing's team the New York Knicks (it is Wilder's birthday), Ewing tells Wilder that Masterson is pregnant. But that moment is nothing- there is another scene where Wilder is with his father and the woman his father wants to marry, and the conversation drags and then he says, "Gee, for this conversation, we could have put Mom on life support." This movie annoyed me so much, I actually wanted to scream at and punch holes in the screen. How is it possible to like characters that stupid and that ill-mannered? There is one scene in a doctor's office where Wilder thinks the doctor is feeling him up. He asks what the doctor is doing to him. He says that the feeling is an auditory monitor. Wilder then says, "Oh, I thought maybe you were lonely." He says this while Masterson is standing next to him, and they all laugh. That is not funny. That is painfully awkward. If I were the doctor, I would tell Wilder and Masterson to get out and never return. This movie is so worthless, I don't think I'll keep talking about it. That's all I'm going to say about this movie- because almost every scene in this movie is like that- tasteless, annoying, and innapropriate. This was such a shocking, atrocious experience- one where I was so aggravated, I wanted to throw pies at the screen.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Leonard Nimoy

Director

Gene Wilder

Duffy Bergman

Christine Lahti

Meg Lloyd Bergman

Mary Stuart Masterson

Daphne

Robert Prosky

E.T

Stephen Tobolowsky

Hugo

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Nell Minow

Movie Mom

Rated: 2/5

Nov 12, 2004

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Funny About Love provides an opportunity to spend 101 minutes in the presence of the most cloying, inane and annoying dialogue I've heard in many a moon, punctuated only by occasional lapses into startling bad manners.

Rated: 0.5/4

Jan 1, 2000

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

A waste of insensitivity and bad taste. [Full review in Spanish]

Nov 3, 2022

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

Directed, with a truly frightening and unerring worship of the banal, by Leonard Nimoy.

Rated: F

Apr 21, 2007

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Jul 4, 2005

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

Were it not for the suicidal feelings you may find yourself with at the end of the 105 minutes, gosh, this might actually be a fun time.

Rated: 3/5

May 31, 2004

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Synopsis

As a political cartoonist (Gene Wilder) and his bride (Christine Lahti) fail to conceive, he and a sorority girl (Mary Stuart Masterson) succeed.

Director: Leonard Nimoy
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Duffy Films
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.6M
Runtime: 1h 41m
Sound Mix: Surround

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