Addicted To Love

Addicted To Love

Date watched- 17th October

Genre; Romantic, Comedy
Year; 1997
Running Time; 1hour 35 minutes
Director; Griffin Dunne
Written By; Robert Gordon
Actors; Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Kelly Preston and Tcheky Karyo

Acting 3/5
Keeping my attention 2/4
Visuals/Direction 3/5
Story/Plot 4/6
Total 12

Plot

Sam (Matthew Broderick) is happy in his small town and very much in love with his teacher girlfriend, Linda (Kelly Preston). But when Linda moves to New York to do a teaching sabbatical a Dear John letter comes through Sam’s door (and read to him by Linda’s father). Determined to get Linda back Sam travels to New York only to find that she is now living with a French chef called Anton (Tcheky Karyo). So determined to find a small crack in this fledgling romance Sam takes up residence in a derelict property opposite the love birds’ apartment and watches their interactions. A unexpected visit to Sam’s new home by a leather clad biker called Maggie (Meg Ryan), who also happens to be Anton’s ex leads to the pair teaming up to find any small way to break Anton and Linda up, the outcome being that they will each get their respective loved one back for themselves when they succeed in their mission. But are Anton and Linda the unbreakable couple and are Sam and Maggie more compatible with each other than they think?

My Personal Views

Meg Ryan stars in many of my all time favourite girlie movies, You’ve Got Mail being one of my favourites, and as such she can do no wrong in my eyes in this movie. Although I have to admit that even I can see some of the wooden acting on display throughout this movie! I watched this movie originally with my childhood best friend on one of our many sleepovers and maybe that’s why this movie has a special place in my heart, along with the fact that this friend is the person who helped me on my road to loving movies/DVD and back in the day VHS. We seemed to watch more and more movies as we got older and we seemed to run out of things to say, I think this movie we watched when we still have a fair few things to say to each other. I bought this DVD in a triple set with the already mentioned You’ve Got Mail and City of Angels, the later being given to a friend of mine many years later as I found it too sad and the former replacing my very worn out VHS copy.
This movie also has been there for a more recent memory of mine, when I was going to originally watch this movie to add to the blog back in July I found my first white hair, ahhh. ‘So what?’ some of you might be saying, well to put it in to perspective I am 24, and this was no small white hair it was the entire length of my hair, which is well past my shoulders. Added to the fact that my mum was 16 when her hair started going white (and in my 24 years on this earth it has pretty much been entirely white), so this momentarily freaked me out but now I am back on track, well it was only one hair and I’ve had a good 8 years on my mum’s age when her hair changed colour.
So anyway back to the film, this has a small cast and it works well, maybe not as fast paced as some but has a good ‘trot’ to it. Like so many romcoms out there it is predictable but what good ones aren’t?

Outcome

Just for the simple facts that this movie holds very special ‘girlie sleepover’ memories for me and that if I could be any movie star in the world it would probably be Meg Ryan this DVD is staying put on my shelf for the foreseeable future.