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Love Stinks (1999)

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Reviews Counted:47

Fresh:9

Rotten:38

Average Rating:3.5/10

Consensus: This one-dimensional comedy with recycled laughs will have you holding your nose.

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Seth Winnick has it all -- a successful career in television, good friends, and a passionate relationship with the beautiful Chelsea Turner. However, when he fails to make a timely marriage... Seth Winnick has it all -- a successful career in television, good friends, and a passionate relationship with the beautiful Chelsea Turner. However, when he fails to make a timely marriage proposal, Chelsea behaves as is she has been bitten by a rapid squirrel. The two redirect their passion into malice and forge a sordid "anti-relationship," replacing love and tenderness with vengeance and venom, which fuels a series of bids to out do the other with acts of cruelty. This unromantic comedy features cameos by Jason Bateman, Christian Slater, and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. [More]

Starring: French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Tyra Banks, Bill Bellamy

Starring: French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Tyra Banks, Bill Bellamy, Jason Bateman, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Steve Hytner, Shana Moakler, Christian Slater

Director: Jeff Franklin

Director: Jeff Franklin
Screenwriter: Jeff Franklin
Producer: Craig Baumgarten
Composer: Bennett Salvay

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Reviews for Love Stinks

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Rebecca Murray
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01/01/00
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

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02/18/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The title is a misnomer. This movie has nothing to do with love; it's about lust, lucre and well-paid losers.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
01/01/00
Steve Murray
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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01/01/00
Sarah Hepola
Sarah Hepola
Austin Chronicle
N/R

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09/26/05
AV Club

Love Stinks is such a paean to television, it would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.

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01/01/00
Cate McQuaid
Cate McQuaid
Boston Globe
N/R

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03/24/02
Boston Phoenix

A sitcom episode stretched to fit, with raunch and language added for shock effect and cheap laughs.

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01/01/00
Mike Kerrigan
Mike Kerrigan
Boxoffice Magazine

While the film bills itself as an unromantic comedy, the truth is that it's an unromantic un-comedy.

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01/01/00
Jason Kaufman
Jason Kaufman
Citysearch

Love Stinks can make you feel good, especially if you've been involved in a bad relationship.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
01/01/00
Charles Ealy
Charles Ealy
Dallas Morning News
N/R

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01/01/00
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Love Stinks smells like a bad sitcom.

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01/01/00
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the movie theater, along comes Love Stinks.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
01/01/00
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News

Inane writing and a flaccid plot.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
01/01/00
E! Online

Holy mother of the bride, what bile was Jeff Franklin drinking when he came up with this curdled revenge fantasy?

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01/01/00
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

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10/05/05
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

The film breaks every rule of the romantic comedy and does it with such glee that even when a gag is fully predictable it's still entertaining.

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01/01/00
Eugene Novikov
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Film Blather

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