Love Liza

Name: Love Liza
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: December 30, 2002
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Kathy Bates, Philip Seymour Hoffman

2002

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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment | Release Date: December 30, 2002 | R

Starring: Kathy Bates, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Summary: A showpiece of comic and human desperation, a wonderfully inspired tale of a survivor and the possibilities and impossibilities for resolution. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Director: Todd Louiso

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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David Sterritt

Hoffman's acting is poignant and compassionate, etching a profoundly sad character with no trace of compromise, and Bates gives one of her most controlled performances ever. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Me, I’ve now seen the movie three times and I’ve laughed and I’ve cried. It comes the closest to any movie experience I’ve had in re-creating the aftermath of unexplained suicide. Sometimes there just aren’t any answers. Read full review

Edward Guthmann

A downbeat but oddly affectionate tale. Read full review

Jack Mathews

It's a great performance that's a horror to watch. Of all the bleak year-end movies, Love Liza is the bleakest; of all the sad characters you've seen lately, Hoffman's Wilson Joel is the saddest. And he goes home with you. Read full review

Connie Ogle

The misery is there, all right, in every woozy, spaced-out shot of Hoffman clutching his gas-soaked rag. But in the end, do we really care? Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Hoffman acts the hell out of the role. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

What should have been an idiosyncratic 20-minute short is distended by repetition and loads of standard indie-film time-killers. Read full review

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