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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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Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Variety
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A one-dimensional comedy that mostly falls flat.

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Anita Gates
Anita Gates
New York Times
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Love Stinks is such a paean to television, it would have done better to go straight to video, where it belongs.

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Cate McQuaid
Cate McQuaid
Boston Globe
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Love Stinks can make you feel good, especially if you've been involved in a bad relationship.

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01/01/00
Charles Ealy
Charles Ealy
Dallas Morning News
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They called it right: this movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.

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01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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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.

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Edward Guthmann
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San Francisco Chronicle
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James Berardinelli
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ReelViews
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Sometimes it stinks with the sweat of failure. But sometimes it's as bitterly funny as its makers could hope.

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Jeff Millar
Jeff Millar
Houston Chronicle
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Holy mother of the bride, what bile was Jeff Franklin drinking when he came up with this curdled revenge fantasy?

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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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A cut-rate romantic comedy of the kind that Adam Sandler would star in if his movies made no money.

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Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
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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.

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01/01/00
Robert Horton
Robert Horton
Film.com
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Jeff Franklin's idea of cutting-edge comedy writing runs to the kind of vulgar, unfunny shtick that puts the gag in 'gag.'

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01/01/00
Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher
New York Post
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The title is a misnomer. This movie has nothing to do with love; it's about lust, lucre and well-paid losers.

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01/01/00
Steve Murray
Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Just when you thought it was safe to go into the movie theater, along comes Love Stinks.

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Susan Stark
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Detroit News
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Love Stinks smells like a bad sitcom.

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Detroit Free Press
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