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Love Stinks (1999)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:3
Rotten:12
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: This one-dimensional comedy with recycled laughs will have you holding your nose.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Seth Winnick has it all -- a successful career in television, good friends, and a passionate relationship with the beautiful Chelsea Turner. However, when he fails to make a timely marriage... Seth Winnick has it all -- a successful career in television, good friends, and a passionate relationship with the beautiful Chelsea Turner. However, when he fails to make a timely marriage proposal, Chelsea behaves as is she has been bitten by a rapid squirrel. The two redirect their passion into malice and forge a sordid "anti-relationship," replacing love and tenderness with vengeance and venom, which fuels a series of bids to out do the other with acts of cruelty. This unromantic comedy features cameos by Jason Bateman, Christian Slater, and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. [More]
Starring: French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Tyra Banks, Bill Bellamy
Starring: French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Tyra Banks, Bill Bellamy, Jason Bateman, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Steve Hytner, Shana Moakler, Christian Slater
Director: Jeff Franklin
Director: Jeff Franklin
Screenwriter: Jeff Franklin
Producer: Craig Baumgarten
Composer: Bennett Salvay
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Reviews for Love Stinks
Love Stinks is such a paean to television, it would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.
Love Stinks can make you feel good, especially if you've been involved in a bad relationship.
They called it right: this movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.
Franklin has a certain talent for one-liners -- which Stewart delivers with rat-a-tat precision -- but the result is a spiteful movie that savors its own venom a little too well.
Sometimes it stinks with the sweat of failure. But sometimes it's as bitterly funny as its makers could hope.
Holy mother of the bride, what bile was Jeff Franklin drinking when he came up with this curdled revenge fantasy?
A cut-rate romantic comedy of the kind that Adam Sandler would star in if his movies made no money.
Love Stinks offers up the very modest pleasures of a middling TV show, something you'd watch only if the cable went out on a Friday night.
Jeff Franklin's idea of cutting-edge comedy writing runs to the kind of vulgar, unfunny shtick that puts the gag in 'gag.'
The title is a misnomer. This movie has nothing to do with love; it's about lust, lucre and well-paid losers.
Just when you thought it was safe to go into the movie theater, along comes Love Stinks.
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