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Love at Large |  | Actors: Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins, Anne Archer, Kate Capshaw, Annette O'Toole
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  7 reviews
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1005904D
ISBN: 079285926X
UPC: 027616901347
EAN: 9780792859260
Theatrical Release Date: March 9, 1990
Release Date: January 13, 2004
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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 13-JAN-2004
Media Type: DVD
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
 Not For Me February 20, 2010
Shellie
So apparently everyone else sees something in this movie that I didn't because I thought it was awful. Waste of Money and Time.
 Pleased As Punch October 27, 2009
Linda Thompson (Lawton, OK USA)
I received the product in a timely manner and in the conditon for which it was advertised. I would purchase from Amazon again.
Poking Fun At Film Noir March 16, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're a fan of film noir, you should like this 1990 takeoff of those 1940s films with Anne Archer as an exaggerated femme-fatale in distress and private detective Tom Berenger paid to spy on her husband.
It turns out to be a comedy, however, as Berenger tails the wrong guy but finds things interesting as they are. Then Berenger's girlfriend gets nervous and hires a female detective (Elizabeth Perkins) to spy on him, so everyone is watching everyone!
Although there isn't a lot of action, the film never drags and is a good combination of suspense, humor and drama/action. Also nice is the soundtrack, a "Midnight Run" sound with good blues guitar and trumpet plus a Leonard Cohen song to start the film. Good colors add to everything.
On the negative side, I didn't care for the ending regarding Archer, nor understand why she did what she did. Also, everyone in the film is a bit too sleazy. The other fault likes not in the movie but in the DVD which had a very weak transfer. Overall, fun for a couple of looks.
The gravel voiced detective February 23, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
This movie reminds one very much of a 40's film:
the gravel voiced detective who gets his case all sideways,
but finds his own kind of true anyway.
The cast and script are both very good.
I really enjoyed this movie and except for being a little slow at times,
the movie delivers the goods.
 Very good cast in so-so film February 7, 2005
LGwriter (Astoria, N.Y. United States)
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
Notwithstanding the occasional chuckles that pop up now and again in Love at Large, this is not a great movie. In fact, the filmmaker (writer-director) Alan Rudolph must have sat down and thought, "Gee, how can I make a movie that people will just love to chomp popcorn to?"
So that's what he did. This is not really a bad movie. It just ain't very good. Take a solid cast--Ann Magnuson, Anne Archer, Tom Berenger, Ted Levine, Kate Capshaw, Elizabeth Perkins, and rock god Neil Young--and stick them in a story that is meant to evoke classic film noir but doesn't raise the stakes very high at all for anyone in any situation, and you have the reason for the three stars here.
The acting is fine, no problem. Everyone acquits herself/himself very well indeed. But the story is just kind of there. If you're gonna have film noir, ya gotta have some intensity and it just ain't here, folks. If you DON'T have intensity, you gotta have some real laughs, and there's not enough of em to replace the intensity. So what you DO have is a really watered down film noir that just kind of ambles along good naturedly until the end when it says, Be seein' ya, and then it's over and you can go back to your knitting or whatever.
Too bad. If the story had been punchier OR the laughs had been more frequent and zingier, this coulda been a contender. For a much better film noir from Alan Rudolph, check out Mortal Thoughts with Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. This features some of the best performances from both of them, and is a powerful piece of cinema, written by the great William Reilly.
Love at Large is a kind of half-hearted homage (three H's in a row, how bout that?) to film noir that never really gets off the ground. Good acting, weak script.
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