| Funny About Love | |
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| Directed by | Leonard Nimoy |
| Produced by | Jon Avnet Jordan Kerner |
| Written by | Norman Steinberg David Frankel |
| Based on | "Convention of the Love Goddesses" in Esquire Magazine by Bob Greene |
| Starring | Gene Wilder Christine Lahti Mary Stuart Masterson |
| Music by | Miles Goodman |
| Cinematography | Fred Murphy |
| Editing by | Peter E. Berger |
| Studio | Duffy Films |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 21, 1990 |
| Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $8,141,292 |
Funny About Love is a 1990 American romantic comedy film starring Gene Wilder, directed by Leonard Nimoy. It was written by Norman Steinberg and David Frankel, based on the article "Convention of the Love Goddesses" in Esquire Magazine by Bob Greene.[1]
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New York cartoonist Duffy Bergman (Gene Wilder) marries gourmet chef Meg Lloyd (Christine Lahti). Meg decides she wants to have a baby, and Duffy eventually agrees. After unsuccessfully trying to impregnate Meg, they eventually separate.
Duffy speaks at a Delta Gamma sorority convention in Arizona and explains that the Delta Gammas have always been his dream girls—his Love Goddesses. There he meets Daphne Delillo (Mary Stuart Masterson). When Daphne moves to New York to work as a network sports reporter, their attraction develops into a relationship. Duffy must decide which of the two principal women in his life is more important to him.
| Actor | Role |
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| Gene Wilder | Duffy Bergman |
| Christine Lahti | Meg Lloyd Bergman |
| Mary Stuart Masterson | Daphne |
| Robert Prosky | E.T. |
| Stephen Tobolowsky | Hugo |
| Wendie Malick | Nancy |
| Anne Jackson | Adele |
| Susan Ruttan | Claire |
| Freda Foh Shen | Nurse |
| Regis Philbin | Himself |
| Patrick Ewing | Himself |
Funny About Love opened in 1,213 theaters on September 21, 1990 and grossed $3,036,352 in its opening weekend, landing at #5, behind Goodfellas, Postcards from the Edge's second weekend, Ghost's eleventh, and Narrow Margin.[2] The film would eventually gross $8,141,292 in the domestic box office.[3]
The film received very poor reviews, carrying a 0% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.[4]
Janet Maslin of the New York Times found the film average.
| “ | Infertility, divorce and loneliness shape the rambling plot, but they somehow do little to make the film substantial...... Once the film settles down to follow Duffy and Meg in their eager efforts to conceive a baby, it develops at least some recognizable emotional content.[5] | ” |
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times had nothing but disdain for the film, giving it only a half of a star rating out of the four stars scale he uses.
| “ | Funny About Love provides an opportunity to spend 101 minutes in the presence of the most cloying, inane and annoying dialogue I've heard in many a moon, punctuated only by occasional lapses into startling bad manners.[6] | ” |
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