Skip to main content

Viewer Score

90
Viewer score based on 2 votes.

Critic Score

45
Critics' score based on 13 reviews.
powered by Metacritic ™

Your Reviews

The late Phoenix was cool,playing a friend of the family.Ullman plays a wife who is suddenly awakened to what her repairman husband (Kline)... lie takes vengence on Joey,in the face of his philandering.Hurt and Reeves play thugs who agree with mama Nadjia's (Plowright) plan of murder.This film is comical and hysterical. Full Review

July 24,2011
honeydove64

"You know, getting shot in the head really makes you stop and think."...This line ALONE makes this movie worth seeing.. but there's a LOT... ore about this movie that will make you want to watch it at least twice. Based on a true story (If it wasn't, you'd never believe it ) about a philandering Pizza man (Kevin Kline) whose wife (Tracey Ulman) finds out that he's screwing about half the women in his neighborhood and hires a couple of stoners (William Hurt and River Phoenix) to kill him. One of the funniest monologues I have EVER seen is Kline's "confession" to his priest. I guaraneed you'll rewind the tape and listen it at least twice and laugh as hard the second time as the first....This is a comedy classic.... Full Review

September 24,2009
BikerPilotPoet
Showing 1 of (of )

Critic Reviews

The result is an actor's dream, a film in which the truth of almost every scene has to be excavated out of the debris of social inhibition.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Despite its mixture of macabre slapstick and broadly stroked caricatures, the film has sleepy-time rhythms; it's easily the pokiest farce I've ever seen.Full Review

Hal Hinson
Washington Post

The pace of the direction and-especially-of the screenplay by playwright-television writer John Kostmayer-begins to crawl, weighing down everything. [06 Apr 1990]Full Review

Sheila Benson
Los Angeles Times

More problematical is the tone of the film, which attempts to be both compassionate and goofy, though the events are funny only if they are seen as farcical.Full Review

Vincent Canby
The New York Times

while not without pleasures, I Love You to Death essentially seems a film in search of a tone. [06 Apr 1990]Full Review

Jay Carr
Boston Globe
Showing 1 of (of )

Add Your Review for I Love You to Death