I Love Your Work (2003)

What a waste of my time!!!

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I couldn't see it through to the end.Being a typical ex-smoker, I hate smoking. Right from the start, I was bitterly reminded of the horrible dark days of sore throats and sickness from the incessant smoking by the main characters. The very real hacking coughs of the main characters were sickeningly, and I had to stop watching before I puked from the horror of it.Sorry, such crassness cannot be excused as in any way artistic.Mind you, if you are thinking of giving up the smokes, I recommend you watch.Might just be the best stop smoking cure ever.

This is a miserable movie about the miserable movie star life of a miserable movie star. It's deliberately confusing and unintentionally confused. The script strives for sarcasm and sympathy in equal measure, but achieves only indifference. The direction is equally undecided. The acting is okay, yet watching Giovanni Ribisi's performance is like looking at a man struggling on a Stairmaster set at the highest level; there's a lot of obvious effort but he never goes anywhere. This film has nothing to say and makes a convoluted production out of not saying it.Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is a movie star. He has a hot blonde movie star wife (Franka Potente), a perky assistant (Judy Greer), a private investigator (Jared Harris) and various other ass-kissing associates and "friends". He's also desperately unhappy with himself and pretty much everything in the world, except for his dreams/daydreams/hallucinations of a girl named Shana (Christina Ricci). He's also paranoid about both a possible stalker (Jason Lee) and his wife getting hit on by Elvis Costello. Gray wanders into an independent video store one day and becomes "John Hinkley loves Jodie Foster" obsessed with a perfectly normal couple (Joshua Jackson and Marisa Coughlan). Gray gets more and more disturbed and things end tragically.You may have noticed that my description of I Love Your Work's plot doesn't actually contain a lot of, you know, plot. That's not a mistake. There are things that happen in the film. They just don't connect together or add up to lead in any narrative direction or toward any thematic conclusion. All it has is a generalized antipathy for the realities of celebrity without actually being honest about any of those realities.I'm not sure, but I think this story is supposed to be about how the pressures of stardom destroy Gray Evans heart and mind. I'm not sure about that because there's no connection ever made between the two. The movie highlights the unpleasant aspects of fame and Gray displays a bucketful of emotional problems, yet it never manages to explain or demonstrate how the former caused the latter. It seems like Gray would have been just as screwed up as a grocery clerk or a stock broker.I Love Your Work has no idea if it's about Gray Evans the man, Gray Evans the movie star or Gray Evans the victim of movie stardom. It's also at least 15 to 20 minutes too long and has an ending that is wrongly hilarious no matter how you look at it. Either these filmmakers were trying to be funny even though it is completely inappropriate for the story they're telling, or they were trying to be poignant and botched it so badly it would get a belly laugh out of the couple from American Gothic.If you're a struggling actor and filmmaker and would be comforted at the thought that the folks more successful than you are awful wretches leading lives of bitter torment, you might enjoy this movie. Everyone else would probably be better off polishing up their Sudoku skills.

This movie was advertised as your simple celebrity stalker,but once you see it you realize it is so much more. The commercial says someone turns "envy into obsession" and that is what happens. It was taken to a level of consciousness you don't see meddled with often enough. Giovanni Ribisi is always a treat to watch because his edginess in bringing out a character. Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson,Jason Lee, Franka Potente, and Judy Greer all also star and each brings out their characters very nicely. And, of course, the unforgettable appearance of Elvis Costello is amazing. Just knowing who acts and directs this film is enough of a reason to give it a chance.

What was this movie really about? I have no idea, actually a lot of ideas. I hope one of them is correct. Isn't it weird that the main character actually acts a lot like Adam Golderg does in his movies. It was a pretty good performance though, Boiler Room-like. This movie basically says that celebrities should not stalk regular folks, it can be dangerous. Or the grass is greener on the other side, or this explains Tom Cruise. Maybe even the fact that most of these celebrities end up as Scientology followers cos fame in Hollywood just makes you crazy. Well if its something most people don't understand then its either termed as genius or art. I think its just art, after-all art has no set definitions, at least thats what I think.