CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

bruno-32 Based on a true story, but obviously Hollywood had to take liberties to stretch it out. First, reading other reviews here that Plowright stole the movie, is a bit overboard...it was difficult most of times to make out what she was saying...awful Italian accent, if that was, what it was. Kline went back to his "Wanda" character, only this time with an Italian accent, which wasn't bad...at least I understood what he was saying. Surprising that William Hurt was in such a small role at that time. He was a leading man, and a bigger star than Kline, an Oscar winner at that for a "Kiss FRom Spider woman"..so maybe he did a cameo for the fun of it.

ShannonTriumphant Knowing Lawrence Kasdan ("The Big Chill", "Grand Canyon", "Raiders of the Lost Ark") wrote and directed this, I knew it would be good, but was not prepared for how absolutely hysterical it is.Kline is at his accent-slinging (remember "A Fish Called Wanda"?) best as Joey Boca, the Tacoma "Pizza Man" who compulsively cheats on his overly trusting wife, Rosalie (Tracey Ullman). She would seem pathetic if not buoyed up by her opinionated and competent, "Eurasian" mother, Mama Nadja (Joan Plowright) and the funky young Devo (River Phoenix), who has a crush on Rosalie.SPOILERS!!! Even before the murder attempt, the gags abound, with Joey guilelessly schmoozing with the two cops who are just DYING to tell Rosalie about her husband's extracurricular activities.After Joey is seen with one of his dates by Rosalie, she swears to kill him, with Mama Nadja's full blessing, and offer to help. First, Nadja hires a friend's grandson to kill Joey, but the guy shows up in an Abraham Lincoln mask and a baseball bat, misses and runs away. Nadja then goes out and wires Joey's car to blow up, only to have Rosalie hop in it the next morning with Joey. Luckily, Nadja's bomb-making skills aren't 100%.Rosalie: "Why didn't you TELL me you were going to blow the car up?" Nadja: "I thought it would be nice surprise." Then there is the seemingly endless night in which Mama and Rosalie wait for their poison spaghetti sauce to take effect, in which Joey eats tons of it but keeps rallying, forcing them to play Monopoly and even waking up to wander around and offer snacks to his "guests", after the drug-addled Harlan (William Hurt), hired by Devo, shoots him. His spaced-out cousin Marlon (Keanu Reeves) is a bit over--or rather under--the top, but still quite funny, as he helps Harlan figure out were the heart is (to shoot Joey) by reciting a very botched Pledge of Allegiance ("With amber graves of liberty...and deliver us from Freedom. Amen").The film flags a bit after Joey ends up in the hospital, with his mother (Miriam Margolies) alternately hugging him and whacking his head. Victoria Jackson has a nice bit as the dizzy lover who asks Joey why he stays with his wife if he cheats.The ending could only come from real life (which it did) and as Joey says to Devo, "No more shooting' me in the head, okay?" he is still met with skepticism: "Why not? It seems to have helped." And Mama Nadja is not quite convinced of Joey's reform. "What if he cheats again?" Devo asks. "Then we shoot him again." she replies, half-joking.For the lighter side of infidelity and some great comic performances, not to mention memorable quotes (Nadja: Did you see what he looked like? Joey: Yeaah...he looked like Abraham Lincoln...comin' up to bat.), this film is a must-see.

kaizenboy This movie is super funny and exciting. It is even more exciting for me as the couple's son, in real life, is my teacher. He doesn't talk about this movie, but has hinted at several things related to it. I find it very interesting that people give this movie a poor review and then when they find out it's based on a true story, they love it! I love the irony.It is such an interesting story that I cannot believe would actually happen. This is one of my favorite movies. The characters are portrayed well, which makes the comedy more light-hearted. I love the parts of Keanu Reeves and William Hurt. The movie was funny from the beginning, but they just made it even better.

Pepper Anne I Love You to Death is based on the true story of a woman who's many attempts to have her adulterous husband murdered prove unsuccessful (sort of). Rosalie (Ulman) discovers that her husband, Joey(Klein), a pizza shop owner, is cheating on her. Broken hearted and encouraged by her mother (Plowright), makes plans to bump off that no good husband. So the two women, with the help of her weird, but loyal, new age pizza shop employee (Phoenix), hire a few imbeciles (including cousins Harlan and Marlon--Hurt and Reeves) to do the job. Though the movie morbidly parodies what may not really be something to laugh at, the results are so damn hilarious, making this probably one of the funniest movies I have ever seen -- particularly with Plowright as the sarcastic mother-in-law and Harlan and Marlan as the most dim-witted criminals you've ever seen. Like when Harlan and Marlan are asked to shoot Joey, Harlan says he's going to shoot him in the heart to make it quick. But he can't figure out which side the heart is on. So Marlan suggest reciting the pledge to find out the answer. But they can't even get that right ("...with amber waves of liberty and deliver us from freedom). Or when Marlan says to Harlan "if we keep shooting (Joey), he's going to get suspicious." After a while, you even start to feel sorry for Joey, even if he was a big dumb cheater. It is definitely one hell of an underrated movie. You'll laugh so hard, you'll fart.