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Living Out Loud (1998)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 14

Unoriginal, with one-dimensional characters.

Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 5

Unoriginal, with one-dimensional characters.

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Noted screenwriter Richard LaGravenese made his directorial debut with this dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan), has been having an affair with a younger woman. Judith stews, plans, plots and fantasizes, but she can't decide what to do with her life until she goes out to a night club to see singer Liz Bailey (Queen

R, 1 hr. 33 min.

Drama, Comedy

Directed By: Richard LaGravenese

Written By: Richard LaGravenese, Lynzee Klingman

In Theaters: Oct 30, 1998 Wide

On DVD: Nov 20, 2001

New Line Home Entertainment

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Cast

Holly Hunter
Judith
Danny DeVito
Pat
Queen Latifah
Liz Bailey
Martin Donovan
Bob Nelson
Richard Schiff
Philly
Elias Koteas
The Kisser
Fred Scialla
Stand-In (Danny DeVito)
Eddie Cibrian
The Masseur

Critic Reviews for Living Out Loud

All Critics (56) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (14) | DVD (11)

This feminist comedy shot through with fantasies about the travails of newly single womanhood strikes some rich chords, but doesn't quite put together a complete tune.

April 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Variety

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Daniel M. Kimmel

Variety

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... made up of magical moments of revelation that are the film's strength as well as its ultimate weakness.

April 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Weekly

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Sean Axmaker

Seattle Weekly

If you live in Manhattan, you know women like Judith (Holly Hunter), the 40-something, Upper East Side divorce who put her ex-husband through medical school.

March 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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Maria Garcia

Film Journal International

... there is always a market for these kid of sleek, superficial movies about the redemptive power of being true to your own nature

November 1, 2002 Full Review | Comment

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Great movie...

November 7, 2006

Leigh Ryan

Super Reviewer

Mahalo, Joanna, this was a good one. Danny DeVito. Truly underrated. This is worth seeing just because of his performance. For those flixster friends who have been following my evolving thinking on the term "bittersweet," this is another movie which captures that mood. Neither tragic nor comic, and

August 10, 2006