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Love Hurts

  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • 1h 30m
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5.5/10
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Janeane Garofalo, Jenna Elfman, Richard E. Grant, Carrie-Anne Moss, Paula Mattioli, and Pamela Mattioli in Love Hurts (2009)
A newly separated father has to learn how to date again with help from his teenage son who himself dreams of conquering one girl's heart.
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A newly separated father has to learn how to date again with help from his teenage son who himself dreams of conquering one girl's heart.A newly separated father has to learn how to date again with help from his teenage son who himself dreams of conquering one girl's heart.A newly separated father has to learn how to date again with help from his teenage son who himself dreams of conquering one girl's heart.

  • Director
    • Barra Grant
  • Writer
    • Barra Grant
  • Stars
    • Richard E. Grant
    • Carrie-Anne Moss
    • Johnny Pacar
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    • Director
      • Barra Grant
    • Writer
      • Barra Grant
    • Stars
      • Richard E. Grant
      • Carrie-Anne Moss
      • Johnny Pacar
    • 12User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
    • 46Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Richard E. Grant
    Richard E. Grant
    • Ben Bingham
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    • Amanda Bingham
    Johnny Pacar
    Johnny Pacar
    • Justin Bingham
    Jenna Elfman
    Jenna Elfman
    • Darlene
    Janeane Garofalo
    Janeane Garofalo
    • Hannah Rosenbloom
    Camryn Manheim
    Camryn Manheim
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    Caroline Aaron
    Caroline Aaron
    • Wanda
    Jeffrey Nordling
    Jeffrey Nordling
    • Curtis
    Elvina Beck
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    Marcella Lentz-Pope
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    Rita Rudner
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    Pamela Mattioli
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    Paula Mattioli
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    5sleemon

    A Generic Title for a Generic Rom-Com

    Stop me if you've heard this plot before: Wife leaves hubby because he's become too boring and inattentive. Hubby must somehow reconnect with the youthful self she fell in love with in order to win her back.

    In the interim, the writer and director have to come up with a bunch of "funny" stuff to happen to Hubby before he finally achieves his goal. This includes him learning to be a stud and hooking up with a host of really unappealing ladies, including Jenna Elfman as his sushi-crazed secretary and Janeane Garofalo as an unorthodox Orthodox Jew. But the "funny" stuff is on the order of him going nuts at an 80's Karaoke night, and bowling badly while under the influence of cannabis fudge. I'd call these scenes "funny-adjacent" rather than funny. They're similar to scenes you'd find in a funny movie, minus the laughs.

    Bottom Line: Richard Grant is no Hugh Grant, but this film is watchable--just.
    3napierslogs

    "Love Hurts" is more painful than funny

    Love hurts, and divorce hurts too, especially if you're so self-absorbed that you have no idea what's happening. Moving on also hurts when you're completely clueless about how regular people in society operate. "Love Hurts", the film, is a comedy, but it also hurts because the hackneyed jokes are more painful than funny.

    None of the characters (the ex-wife, the sex-crazed assistant, or the candid son) were thought out at all. They were empty, annoying, and unintentionally more clueless than Ben, our "hero". I came close to liking Ben. Richard E. Grant can pull off sarcasm with aplomb, and he has a look that you can laugh at even when he's drunk and contemptible. But it takes a significantly better written film than this to successfully have an anti-hero hero.

    "Love Hurts" doesn't have anything original, and nothing particularly funny. Most characters didn't make much sense, but they also weren't written as people, they were walking, talking jokes—which unfortunately didn't even provide any laughs. Grant brought everything he could to the character of Ben, and you can almost watch the film for him, but I would just recommend finding him in something else instead.
    3av_m

    Thing about Richard EEEE Grant is - he's never evolved ...

    Thing about Richard E. Grant is he doesn't seem to be able to get part re-playing - and re-playing and re-playing - the character he played in "Withnail & I" and "How to Get Ahead in Advertising" - both of which are classics.

    Withnail was in 1987 - Grant's first film - and How to Get Ahead in Advertising was in 1989 - that's over 30 yrs ago and Grant has made over 100 movies since then - but in every scenario, no matter how unsuited, he's always Withnail.

    So what is the Withnail character - well, it's a frenzied Brit who is interminably bemused by the circumstances in which he in interminably incongruous.

    And in Withnail and How to Get Ahead - he had a perfect fit with.writer/director Bruce Robinson - who had the "Benny Hill" sensibility of that era in Brit comedy to a tee - sharp dialogue, hilarious nonsensical narratives, etc etc.

    So with Robinson, although Grant played basically the same character, the settings were completely different - in Withnail, he's a dispossessed 60's London gad-about and in "Getting Ahead" he's a slick 1980's advertising exec - but Robinson makes it work in both cases without seeming to be repetitive.

    Without Robinson, or a script/director of similar wit and panache - Grant is lost and is like a audio clip that just keeps skipping and repeating.

    In this offering, Grant has nowhere near a Robinson level story or script or cast of supporting actors - and, consequently, it's just a below mediocre mash with Grant flopping around being bemused but definitely not amusing.

    Well, there it is ...
    1pilot1009

    Yes it hurts

    This is a basic get some money rom com without much com and not a lot of rom either. I cannot but think they just produced this out of the romcom sausage machine and used the quantity rather than quality attitude in the hopes it would be a success.
    9liria-2

    Love hurts, this movie doesn't

    ...unless you count the pain in your cheeks from laughing too much. I certainly had from time to time.

    Anyhow, when I heard about this movie I seriously thought that it will be just another heartache, breakup, deep-thinking, insert-any-cheap-cliché-here movie, because of the title. I mean, movies with such titles usually smells like recycling the same old breakup story we've all heard for about one hundred times, if not more. The opening scene just made my bad feeling stronger with his "You've gone heavy on the cheese, honey" and her bath robe, and the flowers on the sidewalk.

    Boy, was I wrong...This movie is damn hilarious! It made me laugh so hard that if I was having milk, I'm sure it'd have blew trough my nose. The father - son relationship didn't left me with the awkward feeling of something unreal, god no, I wish everybody could have a dad like that. Mom could have had a bit more time in the movie, but this was close to perfect, in my eyes.

    Loved it, the craziness, lightness, the way it was always fun and alive and made you cry because of laughing, not because of sadness. Besides, dad's hot. A 9 from me, definitely go watch it, it'll make your day!

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      In real life, Grant abstains from drinking alcohol, as he has an alcohol intolerance. If he does drink alcohol he is violently sick for up to 24 hours. After casting him as an alcoholic man, the director made Grant drink a bottle of champagne and half a bottle of vodka during the course of a night so he could experience drunkenness.
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    • Release date
      • September 9, 2009 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • L'amour toujours
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Pageant Productions
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      • $2,000,000 (estimated)
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      • 1h 30m(90 min)
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