Big Bad Love

Name: Big Bad Love
Genre: Drama
Released: February 22, 2002
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 49
Cast: Arliss Howard, Debra Winger

2002

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IFC Films | Release Date: February 22, 2002 | R

Starring: Arliss Howard, Debra Winger

Summary: Based on the acclaimed short-story collection by celebrated Mississippi writer Larry Brown, Big Bad Love is a tale of Viet Nam veteran Barlow (Howard) struggling to make fiction from his past, his dreams, and the dim sound of the future bearing down on him. (IFC Films)

Director: Arliss Howard

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 111 min

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Kevin Thomas

Brave and admirable for the trust that it puts in a viewer's intuition and willingness in going along with it right through to its rewarding finish.

Steven Rea

Too long (and it sure ain't taut), but it brims with passion. Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Bill Gallo

Constantly touching, surprisingly funny, semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Has a secret weapon in Winger, whose part is small but crucial. Looking a bit older and with redder hair than previously, she brings an earthiness to a movie that could use a lot more of that quality. Read full review

Liam Lacey

The cast is so oddly interesting you wish you could see them doing something less wasteful Read full review

David Edelstein

I don't know if Howard had fun directing, writing, and starring in this thing; but he had to have gotten more masochistic pleasure out of it than the audience does. Read full review

Jack Mathews

If the point of this umpteenth posttraumatic stress drama is that war is hell, even years after it's over and you're sitting in a movie theater, Big Bad Love makes it.

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Jestersrobe

Jul 28, 2019

Incredibly well done. Watches the way a good novel reads. Spectacular music, impeccable writing and great acting. A movie to be watched and rewatched. Outstanding!

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BradS.

Jun 21, 2006

This is a movie I can't stop coming back to. It's passionate and poetic - a gem that slipped through the cracks. Big Bad Love is a work of art as much as a movie whcih critics just didin't get.

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