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CONSENSUS
Hoffman's performance is strong, but the lack of character development and story arc makes Love Liza unsatisfying.
CAST & CREW
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Erika Alexander
Directed by Todd Louiso
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SYNOPSIS
Wilson Joel's (Philip Seymour Hoffman) wife, Liza, has committed suicide, leaving behind a note that he can't bear to read. more...
MPAA RATING
R, drug use, language, and brief nudity
RUNTIME
1 hour, 33 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 30, 2002
Video: May 27, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Sony Pictures Classics
GENRE
Dramas, Death, Internet
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Love Liza Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Hoffman spends a good deal of screen time alone and without much dialogue, using only his considerable physical skill and screen presence to pull off the role."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"... while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture, the journey doesn't really go anywhere."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
 "After a while, Hoffman's quirks and mannerisms, particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"It comes the closest to any movie experience I've had in re-creating the aftermath of unexplained suicide."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"This harrowing drama provides a shattering portrait of the many stages and sides to grief and Philip Seymour Hoffman again demonstrates that he is one of America's foremost screeen actors."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"Melancholy and unpredictable, Love Liza is courageous and lovely."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"We’re left with a story that tries to grab us, only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Hoffman is a terrific character actor."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Hoffman notches in the nuances of pain, but his smart, edgy voice and waddling profile (emphasized here) accent the humor of Wilson's plight, and that saves his pathos from drippiness."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark joke, you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get made."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"What with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background, you may mistake Love Liza for an Adam Sandler Chanukah song."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Eerily accurate depiction of depression."
-- Ernest Hardy, L.A. WEEKLY
"Gets under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
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"Love Liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
"Almost peerlessly unsettling."
-- Bill Chambers, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"One can only assume that the jury who bestowed star Hoffman's brother Gordy with the Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at 2002's Sundance Festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"I was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the Exxon zone, and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being."
-- Annlee Ellingson, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"It may not be "Last Tango in Paris" but..."
-- John Esther, PASADENA WEEKLY
"Despite the film's bizarre developments, Hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance, unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity."
-- Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
"In addition to Hoffman's powerful acting clinic, this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt, or will feel someday."
-- Pam Grady, REEL.COM
"Hoffman's unfettered performance beautifully captures Wilson's sad, manic quality."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"While Hoffman's performance is great, the subject matter goes nowhere."
-- Laura Kelly, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
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ROTTEN 57%
Avg. Rating: 6/10 |
"Lisa Rinzler's cinematography may be lovely, but Love Liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout, maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"Louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode, and brother Hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"There is a kind of attentive concern that Hoffman brings to his characters, as if he has been giving them private lessons, and now it is time for their first public recital."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The script isn't very good; not even someone as gifted as Hoffman (the actor) can make it work."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"A picture as erratic as its central character."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Oddly, the film isn't nearly as downbeat as it sounds, but strikes a tone that's alternately melancholic, hopeful and strangely funny."
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Despite Hoffman's best efforts, Wilson remains a silent, lumpish cipher; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
"This is a nicely handled affair, a film about human darkness but etched with a light (yet unsentimental) touch."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"Hoffman is understandably concerned about typecasting, but he is indeed the man for the job, recalling the intensity that Nicholas Cage brought to an Oscar-winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas."
-- Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR
"An amazing little character study."
-- Glenn Lovell, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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"A low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord."
-- Glenn Kenny, PREMIERE MAGAZINE
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