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.
Two pairs of lovers playing out a comedy of errors, in which Maggie (Ryan)...
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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.
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).
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.
He did not go as far as the Los Angeles Times' Kevin Thomas, who called it creepy and said:
The advertisements did warn viewers that it would be darker than what Ryan and Broderick...
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