Luv, est-ce l'amour?

Original title: Luv

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Jack Lemmon and Elaine May in Luv, est-ce l'amour? (1967)

Milt, who's having difficulties with his wife, runs into his friend Harry, who's about to kill himself. Milt asks Harry to stay with his wife Ellen while he goes off with his girlfriend. Har... Read allMilt, who's having difficulties with his wife, runs into his friend Harry, who's about to kill himself. Milt asks Harry to stay with his wife Ellen while he goes off with his girlfriend. Harry and Ellen hit it off immediately, but Milton strikes out.Milt, who's having difficulties with his wife, runs into his friend Harry, who's about to kill himself. Milt asks Harry to stay with his wife Ellen while he goes off with his girlfriend. Harry and Ellen hit it off immediately, but Milton strikes out.

Director
- Clive Donner
Writers
- Elliott Baker
- Murray Schisgal
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5.3/10

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Director
- Clive Donner
Writers
- Elliott Baker
- Murray Schisgal
Stars

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Jack Lemmon

Harry Berlin

Peter Falk

Milt Manville

Elaine May

Ellen Manville

Nina Wayne

Linda

Eddie Mayehoff

D.A. Goodhart

Paul Hartman

Doyle

Severn Darden

Vandergist

Alan DeWitt

Dalrymple

Martin Abrahams

Coney Island attendant
(uncredited)

Don Ames

Restaurant Patron
(uncredited)

James J. Casino

Bar Patron
(uncredited)

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

Bar Patron
(uncredited)

Terrayne Crawford

Woman in Car
(uncredited)

Daniel Elam

Bar Patron
(uncredited)

Duke Fishman

Bar Patron
(uncredited)

Harrison Ford

Irate Motorist
(uncredited)

Ralph Gambina

Bar Patron
(uncredited)

Joseph Glick

Bar Patron
(uncredited)

Director
- Clive Donner
Writers
- Elliott Baker
- Murray Schisgal
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Trivia
Harrison Ford makes a brief appearance as the driver who punches Harry after Ellen backs into his car.

Quotes
Milt Manville: Look, El, now I've never told you this before; but I couldn't start school until I was 8 years old because I didn't have a pair of shoes to wear. Now, lucky for me, the kid downstairs got hit by an ice-cream truck and I got his shoes. But even then they were too tight for my feet. I couldn't walk. I was put into a special class for disabled children.
Harry Berlin: Do you think that was bad? Whenever it snowed, my grandparents locked me out of the house. Skinny kid with a torn jacket, a paper bag for a hat, knocking and yelling, "Let me in, please let me in..."
Milt Manville: Paradise! What did they used to feed you for breakfast?
Harry Berlin: Glass, filled with two thirds water and one third milk.
Milt Manville: Coffee grounds. That's what I got.
Harry Berlin: With sugar.
Milt Manville: Not on your life. I ate it straight, like oatmeal.
Harry Berlin: Your old man ever beat you?
Milt Manville: He did.
Harry Berlin: With what?
Milt Manville: A strap.
Harry Berlin: [pointing to himself] A chain.
Ellen Manville: [she chuckles] You were both lucky and you didn't know it.
Harry Berlin: Lucky? Did anybody ever call you a "bastard"?
Ellen Manville: A relative or a stranger?
Harry Berlin: Relative.
Milt Manville: I never even had a birthday party.
Harry Berlin: I never even knew when my birthday was till I got a notice from my Draft Board.
Milt Manville: What kind of presents did they used to give you for Christmas?
Ellen Manville: [she scoffs] Presents?
Harry Berlin: When I was 5 years old my grandparents bought a dozen donuts every Christmas till I was 17. I got a donut.

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Luv

Disasterous film version of the Murray Schisgal Broadway hit from the word go. Too dark and moody of an approach by director Donner and an obvious distaste in the material from leads Lemmon, Falk and May, who do their best, but in the end it comes down to the fact that they are badly miscast. Luv became one of those Hollywood oddities - the picture that gets produced despite the fact that everyone agrees it is certain to bomb. It did.