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08/07/08
Big Bad Love (2002)
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Reviews Counted:58
Fresh:24
Rotten:34
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: A boozy depiction of a struggling writer, Big Bad Love is too messy and self-indulgent.
Synopsis: BIG BAD LOVE brings to life the characters that populate Mississippi writer Larry Brown's short story collection of the same name. Leon Barlow (Arliss Howard) is a writer with a compulsion to drink... [More]
Starring: Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Le Mat
Director: Arliss Howard
Reviews for Big Bad Love
This ambitious drama about a Vietnam vet trying to create fiction out of his troubled life and former marriage (to Debra Winger) is messy, rambling, and overlong.
04/12/06
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02/24/04
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02/01/04
Makes you wish you'd stayed at home with a book -- preferably one of Larry Brown's.
10/16/03
The very definition of what critics have come to term an “ambitious failure.”
03/22/03
Ultimately a failed actor's piece...
02/07/03
Offhand, if you'd like to see some great imagery about writing, then you should by all means rent this and skip to the good parts.
11/25/02
A flawed effort at best, but intriguing nonetheless.
10/21/02
The worst kind of independent; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors
09/26/02
The movie's best asset is Howard's filmmaking.
09/26/02
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09/18/02
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08/09/02
A mess, but it's a sincere mess.
08/08/02
It's a drawling, slobbering, lovable run-on sentence of a film, a Southern Gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack.
08/08/02
Its pleasures are ... sharp and not to everyone’s taste
07/26/02
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07/26/02
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07/21/02
Though you couldn't call Love a complete success, it's packed with talent and intelligence, wayward poetry and bluesy longing.
07/20/02
It retains enough moments of twangy gallows humour, mostly courtesy of Paul Le Mat as Leon's corpulent drinking buddy, to keep the film from becoming a bludgeoning experience.
07/11/02
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