Food movies we love: I Love You to Death

by Anne Metz, Posted Jul 4th 2006 @ 1:05PM

What could be a better set up for laughs than a pizza parlor, Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, religion, and a few incompetent hitmen? That's basically the set up for Lawrence Kasdan's 1990 dark comedy, I Love You to Death.

Forget about the feel good sentiment in Mystic Pizza or the romance of Like Water for Chocolate, I Love You to Death takes on a pizza-slinging womanizer, Joey (Kevin Kline) and his revenge-obsessed wife, Rosalie (Tracey Ullman). When Rosalie finds out that her husband has been cheating on her for years, she and her mother decide to take matters into their own hands. Being Catholic, however, divorce is out of the question. So Rosalie decides to do the next best thing -- murder.

But unable to do the deed herself, Rosalie hires a pair of good-for-nothing hitmen, who poison, beat and shoot the philandering Joey, who, all the while, remains completely oblivious to the scheme.

Next to his role as Otto in A Fish Called Wanda, this movie is definitely Kevin Kline at his comedic best. I guess that should explain why I Love You to Death is a "Food Move I Love to Death".

Filed Under: Television/Film
Tags: america, I Love You to Death, ILoveYouToDeath, kevin kline, KevinKline, Pizza, tracey ullman, TraceyUllman

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7-04-2006 @2:14PM rainey said... ...but you forgot to add that it's based on a true story. So when you watch all the absurd ways they kill him and then see him survive and bail them all out of jail you simply *have* to roll with it because IT ALL REALLY HAPPENED. And that just makes it funnier.
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7-04-2006 @2:15PM rainey said... ...but you forgot to add that it's based on a true story. So when you watch all the absurd ways they kill him and then see him survive and bail them all out of jail you simply *have* to roll with it because IT ALL REALLY HAPPENED. And that just makes it funnier.

And then there's Joan Plowright who is *always* fabulous but has comic timing that I, personally, had never guessed at.
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7-05-2006 @5:10AM Widgett Walls said... Excellent flick. For me, the best part is watching William Hurt and Keanu Reeves' drug-addled assassins. They steal the movie.
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