I Love Trouble

PG

1994

2 hr. 3 min.

Mystery & Thriller

Comedy

List

22%

46 Reviews

Tomatometer

33%

10,000+ Ratings

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Worn-down Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) and ambitious Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) are reporters working for rival newspapers. Assigned to cover a train derailment, the two journalists meet at the scene and immediately can't stand each other. But when they suspect a deadly government conspiracy behind the crash, the two rivals work together to break the story. While they expose corrupt scientists and butt heads every step of the way, Peter and Sabrina's competitive tiffs turn into romance.

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Critics Consensus

There appears to be no Love lost between the fatally mismatched coupling of Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte in this screwball misfire that just isn't worth the Trouble.

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steve d

Cute enough story even if the actors wanted to kill each other.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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anna c

I've seen I Love Trouble and it never gets old. It is from the early 90's but is a story that is still entertaining today. Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts play competing reporters at different newspapers in Chicago. When a major story breaks, they both compete to scoop each other, but ultimately decide to team up when it becomes clear that their lives are endangered. Julia Roberts shines in one of her first leading roles, showing us what got her to be known as America's sweetheart. Nick Nolte is also fantastic. He is a very good actor who doesn't get many good roles anymore, because of his past. It's good to see him playing a likable character instead of making a cameo as a psychotic drunk. I Love Trouble, and I love this movie. It's a great story with an excellent cast and thoroughly entertaining.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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william s

It shows on screen how much these two actors didn't get along even if there characters are basic paper cutouts.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Painful to watch. Arguably one of the worst script you could come across, but the performances were not much better. Awful film.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Audience Member

Mediocre romantic comedy, I Love Trouble is a film that had the potential of being much better than what it turned out to be. The film suffers from a wooden script, and in turn, the film becomes, tedious and dull to the point that you lose interest in what you're watching. I wanted the film, and felt it should really have stood out, but there weren't any good enough moment to let the film really shine through. I felt it was just a poorly constructed effort, one that didn't try to entertain, and considering what it tried to do with its story, it's surprising that the filmmakers couldn't deliver anything remotely interesting. I felt that this film was a wasted opportunity, one that should have been much better than this. As it is it, it's just not entertaining and it has plenty of clichéd fiddled moments that brings down the film a bit. This could have been quite interesting if more effort would have been put into the film's story in order to make it less formulaic. Unfortunately, it's just another rom-com that never does anything with its ideas and cast. If you're expecting something that will entertain you, you'll be disappointed as the film just doesn't have anything going for it to warrant a viewing. Like I said, if the film would have had a few rewrites, maybe its ideas could really have worked, but this is a film that is ordinary, as if it was made with the same old genre ideas to create something that doesn't do anything worth seeing.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

It's boring. I don't want to watch it again.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Charles Shyer

Director

Julia Roberts

Sabrina Peterson

Nick Nolte

Peter Brackett

Saul Rubinek

Sam Smotherman

James Rebhorn

Mando

Robert Loggia

Matt

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Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

No one expects movies like this one, set as it is in the largely mythological world of fiercely competitive daily newspapering, to be realistic. But neither should they be as flaccid and unconvincing as what we are presented with here.

Jun 17, 2014

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Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

Trouble is a sampler of the kind of roles Roberts and Nolte should play more often.

Rated: 3/4

Jun 17, 2014

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John Hartl

Seattle Times

Generic as its title, I Love Trouble is like a Xerox of a copy of a facsimile.

Rated: 2/4

Jun 17, 2014

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Stephen Hunter

Baltimore Sun

You can tell that they like each other by the way they hate each other. Shakespeare may have invented the recipe, Tracy and Hepburn may have refined it, but Nolte and Roberts certainly hold their own.

Rated: 3/4

Jun 17, 2014

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Candice Russell

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

There's a pervasive romanticism in I Love Trouble that depends on the chemistry generated by Roberts and Nolte.

Jun 17, 2014

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Dennis King

Tulsa World

The running badinage of Roberts and Nolte lacks the tartness and bite that made those classic couplings and the old screwballs crackle with contentious wit.

Rated: 1.5/4

Jun 17, 2014

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Synopsis

Worn-down Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) and ambitious Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) are reporters working for rival newspapers. Assigned to cover a train derailment, the two journalists meet at the scene and immediately can't stand each other. But when they suspect a deadly government conspiracy behind the crash, the two rivals work together to break the story. While they expose corrupt scientists and butt heads every step of the way, Peter and Sabrina's competitive tiffs turn into romance.

Director: Charles Shyer
Screenwriter: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer
Production Co: Touchstone Pictures, Annhall, Caravan Pictures
Rating: PG
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $30.8M
Sound Mix: Stereo, Surround

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