The Face of Love
2013, Romance/Drama, 1h 32m
74 Reviews 1,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Perhaps worth checking out if only for the opportunity to see reliably powerful work from Annette Bening and Ed Harris, The Face of Love undermines its leads' performances with a scattershot script and aimless direction. Read critic reviews
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Nikki
Garrett, Tom
Roger
Summer
Tom's Ex
Jan
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Critic Reviews for The Face of Love
All Critics (74) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (42)
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The actors, though, lift the material. The most poignant performance comes from the late Robin Williams in a cameo as Nikki's neighbour and friend.
December 12, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
Perhaps it needed a young M Night Shyamalan to endow it with some final whiplash twist.
December 11, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
A soapy but stirring romance with two committed leads.
December 11, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
Interesting set-up, but follow-through doesn't quite work.
December 11, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
It says something for the excellent work of Bening, Harris and Weixler that this basically absurd melodrama succeeds as well as it does.
June 19, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
There is something very dispiriting in watching talent [Ed Harris & Annette Bening] struggling to save something as ill-conceived as this.
June 4, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The Face of Love
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Jun 08, 2014Annette Bening and Ed Harris up against pure corn and soap.hawk l Super Reviewer
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Mar 10, 2014Five years after her husband Garrett(Ed Harris) drowned in Mexico, Nikki(Annette Bening) is still very much grieving. But she feels well enough so that her daughter Summer(Jess Weixler) can return to her chaotic life in Seattle while Roger(Robin Williams), a family friend, comes by to use the pool. In any case, Nikki decides to visit the art museum she used to go to with her husband. While there, she sees Tom(Ed Harris), a dead ringer for Garrett. To be honest, "The Face of Love" would have worked much better as a short story which would not only have kept things ambiguous, but could have ended long before the story ended up running into a wall. Visualizing this concept would have been tricky under the best of circumstances which this is clearly not. But what makes the movie more than a little watchable and sort of worthwhile is the abundant charisma of and chemistry between its two lead actors. Now, if I could only figure what Robin Williams is supposed to be doing here.Walter M Super Reviewer
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Sep 03, 2013The intention was surely a love story but here we have creepiness as a woman pursues a man who looks exactly like her dead husband. The actors work well however in that creepiness up until the film makers take the easy out of an ending with a bow on top.John B Super Reviewer
The Face of Love Quotes
| Tom: | You are something else. I could take a bath in how you look at me. |
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