Addicted to Love
original film poster
Directed by	Griffin Dunne
Produced by	Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein
Written by	Robert Gordon
Starring	Meg Ryan Matthew Broderick Kelly Preston Tchéky Karyo Maureen Stapleton Remak Ramsay
Music by	Rachel Portman
Cinematography	Andrew Dunn
Editing by	Elizabeth Kling
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Miramax Films
Release date(s)	23 May 1997 (USA release)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	USD$34.67 million (est.)

Addicted to Love is a 1997 romantic comedy film, directed by Griffin Dunne. It stars Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick and Kelly Preston. The movie's title is based on Robert Palmer's song "Addicted to Love". It is intended to be a humorous love story, but at some points is a dark comedy and at selective others, it is the traditional, romantic comedy for which Meg Ryan is known.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Plot

Two pairs of lovers playing out a comedy of errors, in which Maggie (Ryan) and Sam (Broderick), an astronomer, try several unethical and nasty tricks to break apart the envied union of their respective former partners, Antoine (Tchéky Karyo) and Linda (Preston). A bollywood movie Jaan-E-Mann: Let's Fall in Love... Again starring Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Priety Zinta was also made which was a copy of this movie.

Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life, Linda, leaves him for a suave Frenchman named Anton. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do; go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, intent on winning her back and waiting until she decides to leave her current lover. What Sam does not count on is being joined several weeks later by ultra hip tomboy Maggie, a photographer and motor-cyclist who is determined to get revenge on Anton, her ex-fiance. Hostile at first, the two of them eventually join forces in an attempt to separate the couple, and ruin Anton's life. However, complications ensue when Sam and Maggie start falling for each other.^[1]

[edit] Critical reviews

The film received harsh reviews. Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert panned it as immature, implausible and imbecilic, but still gave it two stars out of a possible four.^[2]

He did not go as far as the Los Angeles Times' Kevin Thomas, who called it creepy and said:

[edit] Reception

The advertisements did warn viewers that it would be darker than what Ryan and Broderick are usually associated with, using the taglines "A comedy about lost loves and last laughs" and "A comedy about two people who are getting off on getting even."^[3] However, the film only managed to take $34,673,095 gross at the box office,^[4] several million less than either Ryan^[5] or Broderick's averages.^[6]

[edit] Release

The Miramax 101 minute film, marking actor Griffin Dunne's directorial debut, was released on May 23, one week before the highly competitive Memorial Day weekend in the United States.

[edit] Locations

While the majority of the filming took place where it was set, in the Greenwich Village area of New York City, some shooting was done in Centreville, Delaware and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.^[7]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Addicted to Love at the Internet Movie Database
• Addicted to Love at Allmovie
• Addicted to Love at Rotten Tomatoes
• Addicted to Love at Box Office Mojo