
Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) works with Rosalie (Tracey Ullman) in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the question, so she, her mother, and her best friend decide to kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey, who remains oblivious to their attempts.... (Full plot summary below)
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Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) works with Rosalie (Tracey Ullman) in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the question, so she, her mother, and her best friend decide to kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey, who remains oblivious to their attempts.
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| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffKasdan's mockery of everything and everyone ethnic is the cinematic equivalent of heading to the bowery to roll drunks. |
| Nitrate OnlineDan LybargerAn underrated and charmingly low-key comedy. |
| MovieholeClint MorrisWell worth a look, if even for the all-star cast |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe result is an actor's dream, a film in which the truth of almost every scene has to be excavated out of the debris of social inhibition. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyMore problematical is the tone of the film, which attempts to be both compassionate and goofy, though the events are funny only if they are seen as farcical. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonDespite its mixture of macabre slapstick and broadly stroked caricatures, the film has sleepy-time rhythms; it's easily the pokiest farce I've ever seen. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonLawrence Kasdan directed this fair-to-middling black comedy from a script by John Kostmayer, and although the pacing is sluggish in spots, people with a taste for acting as impersonation will enjoy some of the scenery chewing. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenKasdan has inexplicably reduced flesh-and-blood characters to cartoons. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanI Love You to Death is strenuously unclever. |
| TimeRichard CorlissI Love You to Death lacks the precision, ferocity and guts needed for black farce. |