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Goodbye Lover (1999)

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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 24

Half-baked plot twists disorient rather than build drama.

10

Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 9

Half-baked plot twists disorient rather than build drama.

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A darkly comic whodunit about greed, deceit, and romantic deception, Goodbye Lover stars Patricia Arquette as Sandra, a seemingly moral and obsessively cheerful woman who sells real estate and is fascinated by the movie The Sound Of Music. But Sandra has a secret; while she's married to Jake (Dermot Mulroney), an ad executive who is having problems with both his career and his drinking, she's having an affair with his brother, Ben (Don Johnson), a successful public relations man. Ben, on the

Nov 6, 2001

Warner Home Video

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All Critics (52) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (24) | DVD (4)

If you like your murder tales full of plot twists and turns, and you don't get thrown off by the performances, then this one is as twisty as a snake.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Arizona Republic
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The movie becomes so convoluted in its wry-noir scheme and narrative twisteroos, it turns banal and wearisome.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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A high-quality bad movie!

January 1, 2000 Comment
Mr. Showbiz
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It carefully sets up a powder keg of conflicting relationships and affairs but instead of building the natural tension, it opts for a series of gotcha's.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Chicago Tribune
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A slice of old-school Noir. Arquette makes for a terrific femme fatale.

April 19, 2008 Comment
Moviehole
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I liked this movie. It had people who were so distinctively up tp no good. Patricia Arquette looked great while Ellen Degeneres looked lousy.

February 24, 2010
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Pete Skeris

Joffe totally screws over the original script, gutting most of the reason to keep watching. Nice that on his way down he should drag others with him.

January 1, 2009
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Brad West

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