This ambitious drama about a Vietnam vet trying to create fiction out of his troubled life and former marriage (to Debra Winger) is messy, rambling, and overlong.
04/12/06 10:48 AM
Big Bad Love (2002)
42 %
Reviews Counted: 57 Fresh: 24 Rotten:33 Average Rating: 5.4/10
Consensus: A boozy depiction of a struggling writer, Big Bad Love is too messy and self-indulgent. more
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Synopsis:
BIG BAD LOVE brings to life the characters that populate Mississippi writer Larry Brown's short story collection of the same name. Leon Barlow (Arliss Howard) is a writer with a compulsion to drink and a bathroom wall papered with his rejection letters. Powered by endless cases of beer, an... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Le Mat, Angie Dickinson
Director: Arliss Howard
Screenwriter: Arliss Howard, Jim Howard
Producer: Debra Winger
Composer: Tom Waits
Screenwriter: Arliss Howard, Jim Howard
Producer: Debra Winger
Composer: Tom Waits
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02/24/04 07:03 AM
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02/01/04 08:10 AM
Makes you wish you'd stayed at home with a book -- preferably one of Larry Brown's.
10/16/03 01:34 PM
The very definition of what critics have come to term an “ambitious failure.”
03/22/03 12:57 PM
Offhand, if you'd like to see some great imagery about writing, then you should by all means rent this and skip to the good parts.
11/25/02 01:40 PM
The worst kind of independent; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors
09/26/02 11:09 PM
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08/09/02 08:20 AM
It's a drawling, slobbering, lovable run-on sentence of a film, a Southern Gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack.
08/08/02 05:29 PM
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07/26/02 08:19 AM
Though you couldn't call Love a complete success, it's packed with talent and intelligence, wayward poetry and bluesy longing.
07/20/02 08:17 AM
It retains enough moments of twangy gallows humour, mostly courtesy of Paul Le Mat as Leon's corpulent drinking buddy, to keep the film from becoming a bludgeoning experience.
07/11/02 08:19 AM
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