Funny About Love
| Funny About Love | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Leonard Nimoy |
| Produced by |
Jon Avnet Jordan Kerner |
| Written by |
Norman Steinberg David Frankel |
| Based on | "Convention of the Love Goddesses" in Esquire Magazine by Bob Greene |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Miles Goodman |
| Cinematography | Fred Murphy |
| Edited by | Peter E. Berger |
Production company |
Duffy Films |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 101 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $8.1 million[2] |
Funny About Love is a 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Gene Wilder. With a screenplay by Norman Steinberg and David Frankel, the film is based on the article "Convention of the Love Goddesses" in Esquire Magazine by Bob Greene.[3]
Plot
New York cartoonist Duffy Bergman marries gourmet chef Meg Lloyd. Meg wants to have a baby. Duffy agrees, but after unsuccessful attempts, Duffy encourages her to focus on her career and come back to the child issue later. After his mother's death, however, Duffy becomes fixated on wanting to have a child. Meg no longer sees this as a priority, as she's trying to open her own restaurant. The two start to have marital problems, leading to a separation.
Duffy travels to Arizona to speak at a Delta Gamma sorority convention. He explains that the Delta Gammas have always been his dream girls—his Love Goddesses. There he meets the much younger Daphne Delillo, and when she moves to New York to work as a network sports reporter, their attraction develops into a relationship. Daphne becomes pregnant. Duffy is happy to father a child, but uncomfortable with how fast this relationship is progressing. When she has a miscarriage, Daphne breaks up with him, believing that they were really staying in the relationship for the baby.
At his father's wedding, Duffy hears news about Meg and decides to go to her restaurant. He tries to reconcile with her, insisting that he doesn't care if they remain childless as long as he can be with her. Duffy discovers that Meg has adopted a baby boy.
Cast
- Gene Wilder as Duffy Bergman
- Christine Lahti as Meg Lloyd Bergman
- Mary Stuart Masterson as Daphne Delillo
- Robert Prosky as Emil Thomas Bergman
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Hugo
- Wendie Malick as Nancy
- Anne Jackson as Adele Bergman
- Susan Ruttan as Claire
- Freda Foh Shen as Nurse
- Regis Philbin as himself
- Patrick Ewing as himself
Release
Box office
Funny About Love opened in 1,213 theaters on September 21, 1990 and grossed $3,036,352 in its opening weekend, landing at #5, behind Goodfellas, Postcards from the Edge's second weekend, Ghost's eleventh, and Narrow Margin.[4] The film would eventually gross $8,141,292 in the domestic box office.[2]
Critical reception
The film was panned by critics; based on 7 reviews, the film has a 0% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.[5]
Janet Maslin of the New York Times gave the film a mixed review.
| “ | Infertility, divorce and loneliness shape the rambling plot, but they somehow do little to make the film substantial...... Once the film settles down to follow Duffy and Meg in their eager efforts to conceive a baby, it develops at least some recognizable emotional content.[6] | ” |
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times had nothing but disdain for the film, giving it only a half of a star rating out of the four stars scale he utilized.
| “ | Funny About Love provides an opportunity to spend 101 minutes in the presence of the most cloying, inane and annoying dialogue I've heard in many a moon, punctuated only by occasional lapses into startling bad manners.[7] | ” |
References
- ↑ "FUNNY ABOUT LOVE (15)". United International Pictures. British Board of Film Classification. October 26, 1990. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
- 1 2 "Funny About Love (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
- ↑ Trivia at imdb.com
- ↑ "Weekend Box Office Results for September 21–23, 1990". Box Office Mojo. 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
- ↑ "Funny About Love". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
- ↑ Maslin, Janet (1990-09-21). "Funny About Love :: nytimes.com :: Reviews". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2010-08-18.
- ↑ "Funny About Love :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews". Rogerebert.suntimes.com. September 21, 1990. Retrieved 2010-08-18.
External links
- Funny About Love at the Internet Movie Database
- Funny About Love at Box Office Mojo
- Funny About Love at Rotten Tomatoes