Living Out Loud

Sometimes I feel I'm the only straight guy who liked this movie. I liked it a lot. I loved the writing, the acting, the music. And Holly Hunter's dance, under ecstasy, at the lesbian club is one of those film moments... Full review

Writer turned writer-director Richard LaGravenese made 1998's "Living Out Loud", which follows the intersection of the lives of two people emotionally lost in the big city. Holly Hunter plays Judith, a feisty and freshly divorced woman in her early forties with... Full review

It is the most wonderful movie ever. Holly Hunter is awesome. I'm so into that massage scene. Eddie Cibrian (in his film debut) is so hot as that massuer.... Full review

I loved this quirky, not run of the mill fairy tale of people trying to be run of the mill. There is an honesty and intensity that is disarming and moving. Though the resolution is a bit "Hollywood", the process is... Full review

I love this movie. It is so cool. Holly Hunter and Queen Latifah are awesome. This movie also co-starred Eddie Cibrian. He is sooooo gorgeous. I love him!!!... Full review

Holly Hunter shines in this film as does Queen Latifah, not just as an actress but also as a singer, in her role as a cabaret singer who befriends and advises Hunter's characterthrough her recent separation from her philandering husband... Full review

I loved this movie...for all of its parts and for the whole of it. Holly is at her finest, Danny's magnificent and Latifah is, as always, gorgeous and honey-like. Whether you're straight or gay, male/female, young or old, frustratedly married or... Full review

I saw this film back in 1998 when it was released, and I must say that to this day, it remains the most resonant, most joyous and most uplifting film I've ever seen. The fact that the vastly thick movie-going public... Full review

This movie is unassumingly fantastic! It was extremely heartwarming and quirky. It isn't a mainstream film with the usual romantic lines - it is thoughtful and genuine. I would recommend this film . . . I will be buying it soon!... Full review

Let me be frank. I'm an action movie guy. I like it when stuff blows up, and nothing blows up in "Living Out Loud". And I'm not normally into dramas -- too boring and arty ("The Piano"). But I found "Living... Full review

Central to the evolution of the plot and characters is the cleverly written role of the soul singer, played by Queen Latifah, who is sensational. Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito are beautifully matched in every respect even in height! ... Full Review

Living Out Loud has the quality of a European film, owing to the character revelations in John Bailey's eloquent cinematography and the Chekhov stories (The Kiss and Misery) that inspired the script.....her raves for Set It Off were no fluke by stealing every scene she+s in as Liz, the vocalist who befriends Judith....Her opening song perfectly catches the jazz-and-cocktails mood of this rueful comic romance from screenwriter Richard LaGravenese (Beloved, The Horse Whisperer) in a promising directing debut. ... Full Review

The rest of the film was pretty good, especially the performances and the music (including a very strange fantasy lesbian line dancing number). The characters are well drawn and the dialogue by Richard LaGravenese, who also directed the film, is very good. ... Full Review

sometimes it turns out to be subtle and truly touching.....Another joy of the film is....a singer, who is quickly turning into a respectable actress herself.... ... Full Review

Another joy of the film is....sometimes it turns out to be subtle and truly touching.....Hunter, of course, was brilliant in 1993's "The Piano," for which she won an Academy Award....a singer, who is quickly turning into a respectable actress herself.... ... Full Review

After all the special-effects-driven but character-poor blockbusters we've been subjected to this summer, we're finally starting to see some films about real flesh-and-blood people, such as "Living Out Loud." ... Full Article

Misery loves company, it's true.And the worse the misery, the weirder the company it seeks. Thus does Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter), the discarded wife of a rich, faithless cardiologist, find common cause with Pat Francato (Danny DeVito), a divorced... ... Full Article

Screenwriter Richard LaGravenese, making his helming bow, has come up with a sort of contemporary "An Unmarried Woman" as filtered through "Ally McBeal." Premise has Judith (Holly Hunter) suddenly finding herself along in the world when her doctor-husband (Martin Donovan)... ... Full Article

From Amazon : The original title of Living Out Loud was The Kiss, which also happens to be the title of one of the two Anton Chekhov stories the movie is loosely based on. ... Full Article

Living Out Loud, which marks the directorial bow of screenwriter Richard LaGravenese ( The Fisher King, The Horse Whisperer, The Bridges of Madison County, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Beloved ) is being viewed by many critics as a women's... ... Full Article