Funny About Love
| Funny About Love | |
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| Directed by | Leonard Nimoy |
| Written by | Norman Steinberg David Frankel Bob Greene (article) |
| Produced by | Jon Avnet |
| Starring | Gene Wilder Christine Lahti Mary Stuart Masterson |
| Cinematography | Fred Murphy |
| Edited by | Peter E. Berger |
| Music by | Miles Goodman |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | 21 September 1990 (USA) |
Running time | 101 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $8,141,292 (USA) |
Funny About Love is a 1990 film directed by Leonard Nimoy. It was written by Norman Steinberg and David Frankel, based on the article "Convention of the Love Goddesses" in Esquire Magazine by Bob Greene.[1]
Tagline
"Everyone has a biological clock. Duffy Bergman's is about to go off."
Plot
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New York cartoonist Duffy Bergman (Gene Wilder) meets and eventually marries gourmet chef Meg Lloyd (Christine Lahti). Meg decides she wants to have a baby, and Duffy eventually agrees. After unsuccesfully trying to have a baby, they eventually separate. Later, Duffy speaks at a Delta Gamma sorority convention and explains that the Delta Gamma girls have always been his dream girls -- his Love Goddesses. There he meets Daphne Delillo (Mary Stuart Masterson). When Daphne moves to New York to work as a network sports reporter, their attraction develops into a relationship. He must decide which woman is more important to him.
Principal cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Gene Wilder | Duffy Bergman |
| Christine Lahti | Meg Lloyd Bergman |
| Mary Stuart Masterson | Daphne |
| Robert Prosky | E.T. |
| Stephen Tobolowsky | Hugo |
| Wendie Malick | Nancy |
| Patrick Ewing | Himself |
Critical Reception
Janet Maslin of the New York Times found the film average.
"Infertility, divorce and loneliness shape the rambling plot, but they somehow do little to make the film substantial...... Once the film settles down to follow Duffy and Meg in their eager efforts to conceive a baby, it develops at least some recognizable emotional content."[2]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times had nothing but disdain for the film, giving it only a half of a star rating out of the four stars scale he uses.
"Funny About Love" provides an opportunity to spend 101 minutes in the presence of the most cloying, inane and annoying dialogue I've heard in many a moon, punctuated only by occasional lapses into startling bad manners.[3]
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