Funny About Love (Trailer)
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- Release date: 1990
- Runtime: 101 min
- Genre: Comedy, Romance
- Starring: Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Prosky ... See all
- Director: Leonard Nimoy
- Plot: When Duffy Bergman, a New York cartoonist, meets Meg Lloyd, a gourmet chef, he discovers the love of his life and they marry -- yet love alone isn't enough to make them happy. Meg decides she wants to have a baby, a goal that initially makes Duffy frantic, but soon... Read more
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Washington Post
Funny About Love" is all over the place and nowhere at all, a meandering, meaningless farce, an insubstantial look at a serious subject.
Wilder, as an infantile political cartoonist, and Lahti, playing a chef who specializes in jicama and free-range chickens, fall blissfully in love, try to have a baby, break up, then get back together again after he has an affair with an insatiable coed (Masterson).
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Time Out
First, he woos the wonderful Christine Lahti in double quick time; then, when she has failed to reproduce and been put aside, he turns to the young, spunky Masterson.
As interminably cute as its title suggests, Nimoy's film strains for a sophisticated view of adult relationships, while in reality taking the director's obsession with babies to new depths.
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News
`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. ... Full Article
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