The Thing Called Love

I love this movie it is a good one. I love the story and where it took place in Nashville. I loved River Phoenix he was a good actor and I good looking person! It was sad what happend to him.... Full review

I love this movie. since i was a little girl and i saw it for the first time. i love country music and this movie was just fantastic!!!!!!... Full review

this movie is full of actors who know what they are doing. the acting is great the story line is better. one of my all time favorits. everyone should see it at lest once. river brings you right into the story.... Full review

Thing called love is the story of what i wish my life could be, I want nothing more but to be a country music singer this has got to be one of my favortie movies.... Full review

Thanks to Peter (Bogdonovich) for participating in this project/getting the movie re-released. Admittedly, it's not for everyone, but then, even the director admits it in his interview. In fact, he points out it's rather become a "cult classic" and I... Full review

This movie is one of my favorite all-time movies. It is a chick flick...with River Pheonix and Sandra Bullock. Sandra Bullock is young and very funny in this country film.... Full review

I watched this movie late one night when there was nothing else on the TV, opening was quite good but from the minute Samantha Mathis's character met the whole gang i was fighting with the character over her choices, i... Full review

This movie is amusing, touching AND captivating the whole way through. River Phoenix' performance, from his excellent singing voice to his southern accent, made me believe he was an up and coming country western singer. Phoenix becomes the insecure yet... Full review

When i first saw this movie i just watched it because i like River Phoenix. It is not one of River's best but its a good one. Once i saw it i thought it was really good because of the... Full review

Not really a story about generation x, although the cast is young and as fresh as it can be for 1992 / 1993. This is the story about youth, music and growing up an Elvis fan. More than that, it... Full review

his devotion to his work.....The film's version of Nashville is both aggressively friendly and invasively candid.....The film's most romantic aspect is Miranda's devotion to her writing:....The Thing Called Love was not well received, and looking at it again, it's plainly unpolished..... ... Full Review

So with the songwriting forming the background, "The Thing Called Love" puts Miranda and James' tumultuous relationship at the forefront, while Kyle lurks like a wounded puppy off to one side. The simple storyline has an old-fashioned feel to it, and it's certainly worth spending a couple hours with, even if you never give it another thought when it's over. ... Full Review

this movie is astonishingly annoying and basically unwatchable. Dermot Mulroney, once again playing a dim-bulb-who-is-a-good-guy-but-doesn't-get-the-girl, and Sandra Bullock playing another transplant without much musical talent. ... Full Review

The rest of the movie only confirms it, making " The Thing Called Love " a painful experience for anyone who remembers him in good health. Samantha Mathis is plucky and spirited in the lead role, and the milieu is entertaining (everyone in the movie, even cops and taxi drivers, seem to be aspiring songwriters). ... Full Review

The Thing Called Love is most impressive in the way it presents the so-called "little things. Music isn't The Thing Called Love 's only inspiration. Country fans will probably find in this motion picture an appropriate expression of their music. ... Full Review

he elephant in the room of The Thing Called Love is a desiccated River Phoenix, visibly on his way to his tragic rendezvous with fate outside the Viper Room three months after the film's release. ... Full Article

Roger Ebert / Q. You described "The Thing Called Love" as River Phoenix's "last finished film." But then I saw that another movie with Phoenix and Alan Bates--"Silent Tongue" directed by Sam Shepard--is opening. ... Full Article

In Nashville, there are 10,000 singer-songwriters hasing success...with one chance in a million of getting it. For Miranda "no relation to Elvis" Presley (Samantha Mathis), that's one chance worth taking. ... Full Article

Peter Bogdanovich's county music drama didn't fare very well during its 1993 theatrical run. Partly this is because Paramount didn't put much energy into its release, but it's also because Bogdanovich took it as a job for hire during a... ... Full Article

By Travis Mackenzie Hoover The Thing Called Love is a movie that veers in and out of your consciousness - just when you've written it off as a pile of clich?s, it manages to reach out and grab you, and... ... Full Article

It could be construed from River Phoenix's untimely death in 1993 that he was full of warring, unmanageable impulses, and his performance in the Director's Cut of The Thing Called Love , one of his last films, about Gen-Xers seeking... ... Full Article