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I Love Your Work

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Rising Hollywood star Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is on the verge of a psychological breakdown. With the mounting attention has come mounting pressure, and everywhere he looks it seems like someone wants a piece of him. To make matters worse, his marriage to fellow actor Mia Lang (Franka Potente) has gone sour. After Evans receives an unusual fan letter, he grows increasingly concerned that its author -- bearded video store clerk John (Joshua Jackson) -- has begun stalking him.

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Kyle Smith New York Post 12/02/2005
.5/4
At last, Adam Goldberg has given us his 8 1/2. It's an ambitious rumination on fame, reality, love, loss and regret that falls so far short, he should have called it 2 1/8. Go to Full Review
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News 12/02/2005
2/4
Working with a self-consciously urgent, neo-noir style, Goldberg seems intent on expressing a meaningful message of some kind. It's too bad, then, that he has chosen such a shallow subject. Go to Full Review
Manohla Dargis New York Times 12/01/2005
2/5
Directed by the young actor Adam Goldberg, "I Love Your Work is an attempt to say something interesting about modern celebrity. Go to Full Review
Robert Davis Paste Magazine 06/05/2008
2.5/5
It's an intriguing mish-mash, a meta-textual stew that Goldberg, unfortunately, paints with a big, thick brush and then underlines with fat charcoal pencils. Go to Full Review
Christopher Campbell Cinematical 09/18/2007
3/5
So many questions are raised from both sides of the celebrity fence that the film could only have been made by someone as on-the-edge of stardom as [Goldberg]. Go to Full Review
David Cornelius eFilmCritic.com 03/23/2006
2/5
It's too busy trying to be clever that it forgets to give us anything that's actually interesting. Go to Full Review
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Steve D @RT35616104 01/31/2024 Uninstalling but far from interesting. See more camille l @RT76374992 12/11/2016 I Love Your Work, deuxième film d'Adam Goldberg, se veut étrange, fascinant et original. Il parvient quasiment à ses fins. Etrange, original et parfois fascinant, cette histoire de starification, de stalker et d'un type qui devient totalement fou joué par un excellent Giovanni Ribisi n'est pourtant pas vraiment un bon film. Adam Goldberg ne se refuse rien, aucune digression mais n'est pas Full Frontal qui veut. On se retrouve souvent devant un assemblage de scènes qui n'ont pas grand chose à raconter et qui font partie d'un ensemble chaotique tournant trop vite à vide. C'est dommage car Vince Vaughn, Christina Ricci ou encore Frank Potente y livrent des performances remarquables. See more 11/17/2016 director goldberg manages 2 avoid 'the sophmore curse' with this look at modern celebrity, and all it's ups n downs. See more 04/20/2012 The mostly lazy of screenwriting. Young actor is bothered by his fame and people recognizing him until it serves his own ends and then wields it like a weapon. YAWN.. It's like any hack movie that set in California, with characters who are actors or writers.. yes write about what you know.. so learn something and show it don't trot out the same old wank about how hard life is when you are famous. The cast, with some fine actors, drown in a sea of nothingness and can only have appeared because of the director. Uninteresting shot and low on budget and just about every other score. See more 10/16/2010 Never really engaged my interest; it was a trial to get through, and in the end, I didn't really like anything about it. See more 08/22/2010 I finally caught I Love Your Work this past week and I have to say that Giovanni Ribisi really amazes me as an actor! He really really nailed the whole paranoid-rich-actor-wanting-a-simpler-life bit. And it worked! I completely sympathized for him. This little flick made me NOT want to be famous. The rest of the cast was all top notch too, including Jason Lee, one of my all-time favorites. He plays a creepy little character who apparently harasses actors until they get mad and knock them out in full view of a cop. Joshua Jackson plays a video store clerk who wants to make movies and eventually helps Gray Evans (Ribisi) finally crack. Christina Ricci plays the gal who Gray wishes he could be with and live the life that she and her boyfriend John (Jackson) actually have. They are sweet and romantic and very much in love, even though they don't have the rich life. It doesn't help that Evans thinks his wife Mia Lang (played by Franka Potente) is having an affair with none other than Elvis Costello! This cat has got a whole lot going on in his life, going to premiers, filming a movie, and always partying. Like I said, finally, he cracks and boy does he do it well. I've always loved watching Giovanni peform, whether it was in Gone In 60 Seconds, Lost In Translation, "My Name Is Earl" or another amazing performance in The Gift. This was the first and only directorial effort so far by Adam Goldberg, who also co-wrote, produced and edited. A classic auteur in the truest sense. I unfortunately gave this flick three stars just because I believe the story was a bit weak and the ending wasn't the clearest. But it was still a very good movie that was very moving and powerful. And if you want to see a great actor performing a great role, try checking this one out! See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Rising Hollywood star Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is on the verge of a psychological breakdown. With the mounting attention has come mounting pressure, and everywhere he looks it seems like someone wants a piece of him. To make matters worse, his marriage to fellow actor Mia Lang (Franka Potente) has gone sour. After Evans receives an unusual fan letter, he grows increasingly concerned that its author -- bearded video store clerk John (Joshua Jackson) -- has begun stalking him.
Director
Adam Goldberg
Producer
Adam Goldberg, Chris Hanley, David Hillary
Screenwriter
Adam Goldberg, Adrian Butchart
Production Co
Muse Productions, Rice/Walters Productions, Departure Entertainment
Rating
R (Violent Images|Language|Some Drug Content|Sexuality)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 14, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.6K
Runtime
1h 51m
Sound Mix
Dolby
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