I Love You to Death

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I Love You to Death

R

Released Apr 6, 1990

1h 36m

Comedy

Drama

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Joey (Kevin Kline) and his wife, Rosalie (Tracey Ullman), run a pizza joint with the help of Devo (River Phoenix), a spaced-out teenager with the hots for Rosalie. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is having a number of flings, she consults her mother (Joan Plowright). With divorce out of the question due to the couple's Roman Catholicism, murder is the only recourse. Devo helps by recruiting local thugs Harlan (William Hurt) and Marlon (Keanu Reeves), but luck is on the side of oblivious Joey.

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Gene Siskel

Chicago Tribune

With a cast like this you keep waiting for something important to happen, which never does.

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 21, 2020

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Variety Staff

Variety

Harold and Maude it ain't.

Oct 16, 2008

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

The best thing about ''I Love You to Death'' is that although it fails in other ways, it accommodates Mr. Kline without inhibiting him.

May 20, 2003

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...an appealing premise that’s employed to mostly watchable yet disappointingly erratic effect by Kasdan...

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 25, 2022

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Alberto Abuín

Espinof

The best of the film is its short duration and Kevin Kline, who proves to be one of the best actors of the last thirty years, dominating comedy like nobody else. [Full Review in Spanish]

Sep 4, 2019

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Richard Freedman

Newhouse News Service

All this makes for some rather labored black comedy in which the stars seem to be having more fun acting out of character than the audience will have watching them.

Jan 5, 2018

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Jason H

I wish she had succeeded. He's a pig!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/24/25

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T B

Without a doubt, one of the best movies ever. Great cast, great directing. How some do not like is hard to understand.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/13/25

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Rick I

Funny movie , great actors . Don’t agree with a few of the bad reviews.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/14/25

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Audience Member

I went with 2 1/2 stars for this movie I think that I have only watched this movie once. I would def. watch this movie again, River P. is awesome and I thought that this movie was funny. Such a throwback movie from the 90's I have not seen this movie in a while though 2 1/2 stars.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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This is the perfect example of how you can take a fantastic cast (Ulman somehow shines in the first half with real heart), an incredible true story perfect for a black comedy and the Green light from a Major studio to make a motion picture and without a credible director you are left with terrible mess. The shambolic direction and zero vision for this picture by Lawrence Kasdan ruined any chance of this picture succeeding: he had zero understanding of the people, community, context for the plot, he turns Kevin Kline into a tragic parody of super Mario (cast an Italian actor???) and drains all the natural talent, warmth, credibility from everyone in it. He should never have been able to have made this or any picture again. When you know how hard those that write and produce work to get a picture made and he does this to your movie he should be ashamed of himself. Such a huge shame with so much opportunity (RiverPhoenix and Keane Reeves together pre Idaho, Joan Plowright an institution of an actress, William Hurt for Christ's sake reduced to a 3 line moron stoner). I wanted to love this movie but there is little hold on to and by the end nothing at all.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

Excelente reparto para una pelicula casi original.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Synopsis

Joey (Kevin Kline) and his wife, Rosalie (Tracey Ullman), run a pizza joint with the help of Devo (River Phoenix), a spaced-out teenager with the hots for Rosalie. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is having a number of flings, she consults her mother (Joan Plowright). With divorce out of the question due to the couple's Roman Catholicism, murder is the only recourse. Devo helps by recruiting local thugs Harlan (William Hurt) and Marlon (Keanu Reeves), but luck is on the side of oblivious Joey.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Producer: Jeffrey Lurie, Ron Moler, Lynn Isenberg, Patrick Wells, Lauren Weissman
Distributor: TriStar Pictures
Production Co: TriStar Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 6, 1990, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 15, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.9M
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: Surround

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