Addicted to Love (1997)

Director:

Griffin Dunne

Writer (WGA):

Robert Gordon (written by)

Release Date:

23 May 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

A Comedy About Lost Loves And Last Laughs

Plot:

Maggie's and Sam's former partners are in love; she wants revenge and he wants his lost love back, so they work together to break up the happy couple.

Plot Keywords:

Male Female Relationship | Motor | Camera | Airplane | Male Nudity

Cast

Meg Ryan	...	Maggie
Matthew Broderick	...	Sam
Kelly Preston	...	Linda Green
Tchéky Karyo	...	Anton Depeux
Maureen Stapleton	...	Nana
Nesbitt Blaisdell	...	Ed Green
Remak Ramsay	...	Prof. Wells
Lee Wilkof	...	Carl
Dominick Dunne	...	Matheson
Susan Forristal	...	Cecile
Larry Pine	...	Street Comic
Debbon Ayer	...	Gwen
Maurizio Benazzo	...	Euro-Chic Man
Paolo Calamari	...	French Bartender
Helmar Augustus Cooper	...	Bus Driver

Also Known As:

Forlorn

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

South Korea:18 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M (original rating) | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Belgium:KT | Chile:14 | Finland:S | Germany:12 (bw) | Iceland:L | Netherlands:AL | Norway:7 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #35298)

Filming Locations:

Centerville, Delaware, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Maggie and Sam use a "camera obscura" to spy on Linda and Anton. The images they watch frequently are panned and zoomed, much like a modern video camera. But when we see Maggie and Sam, they are watching the images and not controlling the camera obscura. It is simply in a fixed position.

Quotes:

Sam: [Maggie is watching Sam and Anton in Anton's apartment from across the street]
[about Anton's cooking]
Sam: This is really good!
[Maggie throws a tantrum across the street]
Sam: I'm sorry, it is!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Game K N B: (2007-03-03)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Só Tinha de Ser Com Você

Romantic comedy with a rather hard edge

This is a romantic comedy with a rather hard edge, or, to put it differently, a European-style farce with a too cushy ending.

Apparently, this film was conceived as a Meg Ryan vehicle, i.e. as a product suitable for her established screen persona. This was a mistake. The cast choice (and the marketing) make the outcome of the film blatantly obvious and that takes away too much suspense from the viewing experience. Also, the film makers did not have the courage to bring the misfortunes heaped upon Anton Depeaux (played very well by Tcheky Karyo) to their logical conclusion. It's designed as a chick-flick and thus everyone's gotta be happy at the end. A more emotionally ambiguous ending could have turned this into something special.