Love Potion No. 9 (film)

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Love Potion No. 9
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Dale Launer
Produced by	Dale Launer
Written by	Dale Launer
Starring	Tate Donovan Sandra Bullock
Music by	Jed Leiber Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	William Wages
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	13 November 1992
Running time	92 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

Love Potion No. 9 is a 1992 movie starring Sandra Bullock and Tate Donovan. Inspired by the famous doo-wop song of the same title, it's about a special elixir (Love Potion No. 8) that enables a person to make people of the opposite sex become completely infatuated with them by simply talking. The potion also makes people of the same sex loathe, and sometimes physically attack, the one who is using the potion.

The film gives a pseudoscientific explanation as to how the potion "works", it's explained:

When swallowed it affects the vocal cords directly so that when you speak microtremors encoded within your voice stimulate tiny little hairs in the inner ear of the opposite sex. The hair vibrates, sending a signal along a nerve to the brain, which in turn produces a combination of mood-altering, endogenous chemicals responsible for the biochemical process of falling in love. It makes members of the same sex hostile. It only works for four hours at a time.

Love Potion No. 9 prevents love from fading, and overrides the effects of Love Potion No. 8.

[edit] Trivia

• Love Potion No. 9 was first released on home video in 1993.
• Alvin and the Chupmunks: Love Potion No. 9, a Valentine's Day direct-to-video in the series, released only on home video in 1994, and is published by Bagdasarian Productions, is unrelated to this film, though that Alvin and the Chipmunks video was not connected with the Alvin and the Chipmunks series, due to some sexual references though the video was not rated, where the series was made to be in a lighthearted nature.

[edit] External links

• Love Potion No. 9 at the Internet Movie Database