
On a day, just like any other day, Henry, an architect in New Orleans, gets ready to go to work. His pregnant wife, Penny, sees a 14-15 year old girl going through their and other neighbors' trash and tells her husband to talk with the girl and perhaps help. Penny kisses Henry goodbye and tells him to be bold at a decisive day at work. This day is not going to be like all the others. The clients are more than satisfied at work and a partnership in the company is offered. But ... (Full plot summary below)
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On a day, just like any other day, Henry, an architect in New Orleans, gets ready to go to work. His pregnant wife, Penny, sees a 14-15 year old girl going through their and other neighbors' trash and tells her husband to talk with the girl and perhaps help. Penny kisses Henry goodbye and tells him to be bold at a decisive day at work. This day is not going to be like all the others. The clients are more than satisfied at work and a partnership in the company is offered. But then comes the call. Penny's car crashed on her way to see her mom and Henry's alone. Henry tries to befriend the teenage girl, his wife mentioned. She's trying to build a raft out of garbage and Henry wants to help her.
Leave your thoughts about The Book of Love.
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshFor a film thats trying very hard to make you feel, it sure leaves you cold. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfPerhaps Purple and Pickering have honest intentions, but "The Book of Love" doesn't deliver sincerity. It's more comfortable with heavily sugared predictability. |
| 3AWJim SchembriFinely prepared mush with some nice riffs about acceptance and moving on that unspools quite pleasantly in the home entertainment environment...a modest, well-made, small-scale film with a simple message. |
| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyIt’s a diabetically sappy big-screen self-help seminar that should have been titled The Book of Schmaltz. |
| Common Sense MediaS. Jhoanna RobledoUneven drama about two lost souls has swearing, drug use. |
| Screen InternationalDavid D'ArcyThis well-meaning debut feature about following your dreams just treads water. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd Jorgenson... overdoses on self-help chestnuts, forced comic interludes and bad Cajun accents, while offering little insight into the grieving process that hasn't been explored with more sincerity elsewhere. |
| RogerEbert.comChristy LemireIt isn’t creepy, but it isn’t terribly plausible, either. It’s just another movie in which a 30ish white dude finds purpose and learns how to live life again through the love and support of a younger woman who’s more of a concept than a real person. |
| Under the RadarZach HollwedelThe Book of Love, much like Henry and the girl's raft, is guaranteed to sink as soon as it sets sail. |
| VarietyNick SchagerPseudo-revelatory bombshells and heart-healing epiphanies inevitably arrive by film’s climax, which only reaffirms that — no matter how it’s cleaned up, reconstituted and transformed into something new — garbage is still garbage. |