Big Bad Love
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- Synopsis
- Arliss Howard makes his directorial debut and stars as Leon Barlow, an alcoholic Vietnam vet and struggling writer whose ex-wife (played by Howard's real-life spouse Debra Winger) refuses to let him see their children....
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- Starring
- Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, Rosanna Arquette, Angie Dickinson
- Director(s)
- Arliss Howard
- Distributor(s)
- Independent Artists
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 111 min.
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Variety | David RooneyAdd Critic to Favorites
A flawed and overlong but ultimately affecting account of one man's struggle to regain control of his life.Read the full review
Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites
Howard luxuriates in writerly misery as Barlow, and the participation of the filmmaker's real-life wife, Debra Winger, as Barlow's ex gives the scenes between the two of them an unfakeable erotic charge.Read the full review
The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites
Beneath its stylistic and structural quirks, Big Bad Love -- is a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence.Read the full review
