Addicted to Love (film)

Addicted to Love is an American comedy film from 1997, in the form of two of its partners abandoned people a marriage of convenience in order to take revenge on their Expartnern.

Action

The teacher Linda leaves her for two months working as an astronomer friend Sam and moved to New York. After this time, however, does not come back, but a letter that Sam announces the end of the relationship. Sam follows Linda to New York, only to find that another man has taken his place: Antoine, a French restaurant owner. In an opposite Antoine's apartment abandoned house, Sam sets up and observed the two in order to reclaim at the opportunity arises Linda can.

After a few days he meets the photographer Maggie, who is obsessed with it, to take revenge on her ex- fiance Antoine. They laid bugs in the apartment Antoine to listen to the couple can. Together she and Sam Antoine and Linda look from now on in their lives in the apartment and plan their revenge next steps.

Do you have a street artist paint his monkey with lipstick and jump on the unsuspecting passers- Antoine. However, as Linda in the evening finds lipstick marks on Antoine's shirt, he can calm down. A short time later, Antoine is splashed by children with water pistols - in the water Maggie and Sam had previously mixed perfume. Linda is suspicious and can be difficult to convince that it is the perfume is a childish prank and not another woman.

Maggie decides also to harm Antoine professionally and financially. She steals his credit card and gives his account empty. Together with Sam, who smuggles himself as a dishwasher at Antoine's restaurant, they distributed cockroaches in the dining room, as there just fed a respected restaurant critic. Antoine's Restaurant is closed by the health authorities, but Linda is to it - Antoine makes her a marriage proposal. When Maggie and Sam want to give up, Linda found in Antoine a panty that Maggie had previously hidden in the apartment. She leaves Antoine and pulls into a hotel.

About the joint actions, Sam and Maggie have come closer. They even slept together - in Antoine's and Linda's bed in their absence - but now wants to recover Linda Sam. He meets up with Linda and both arrange to meet for the evening, where Sam promptly meets before Linda Hotel on Antoine, who now sees his former rags than one friend and takes on his apartment. Both drink together, what Maggie observed from the opposite apartment. As both men are fallen asleep over their drinking, Maggie sneaks into Antoine's apartment and distributed there moldy strawberries, who is allergic to her ex. The next day, Antoine has rash all over the body. Due to an accident in which guilt is Sam, Antoine short time later breaks both arms, must wear a plaster torso and can not scratch. Sam and Maggie realize that they have done enough damage.

Sam says Linda all their acts and reacts angrily. Maggie has learned that Antoine she really liked, but never loved her and she has therefore left out of honesty. She and Antoine choose to be even. Linda returns to Antoine. Sam is leaving New York and flies home, but sees a plane in the series Lassie - and returns to Maggie back, because he has realized that she really wanted him with their behavior only show their love. In the end, they both fall into his arms and kiss.

Criticism

" A modest romantic comedy with wonderful visual gags; yet the expectations are ultimately disappointed because the story suffers from too much under its many implausibilities. "

Background

The film played in theaters in the USA about a 34.7 million U.S. dollars.

1997 in film Griffin Dunne Screenplay Bob Weinstein Andrew Dunn (cinematographer)
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