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- Funny about Love is a not-so-funny Gene Wilder vehicle. Tale of the biological clock regarding procreation is told from a male point of view here. However, Wilder's problems as a would-be-daddy aren't interesting or compelling.
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Sep 21, 1990 · Funny About Love. "Funny About Love" provides an opportunity to spend 101 minutes in the presence of the most cloying, inane and annoying dialogue I've heard in many a moon, punctuated only by occasional lapses into startling bad manners.
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. As a political cartoonist (Gene Wilder) and his bride (Christine Lahti) fail to conceive, he and a sorority girl (Mary Stuart Masterson) succeed.
- (18)
- Leonard Nimoy
- PG-13
- Gene Wilder
Funny About Love is a 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Gene Wilder in his first romantic lead. With a screenplay by Norman Steinberg and David Frankel, the film is based on the article "Convention of the Love Goddesses" in Esquire Magazine by Bob Greene.
- $8.1 million
- Miles Goodman
- September 21, 1990
Cartoonist Gene Wilder's marriage to Christine Lahti falls apart after they fail to conceive a child, but they manage to get back together after Gene has lots of sex with a younger woman. Love might be funny, but this film is something else entirely.
Sep 21, 1990 · Funny About Love: Directed by Leonard Nimoy. With Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Prosky. NYC cartoonist Duffy meets the bad cappuccino maker, chef Meg, and falls in love. She moves in with him, marries him - but they have problems having a baby.
- (1.5K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Leonard Nimoy
- 1990-09-21
Funny About Love provides an opportunity to spend 101 minutes in the presence of the most cloying, inane and annoying dialogue I've heard in many a moon, punctuated only by occasional lapses...
Review by Chodie_Foster ★★½. Leonard Nimoy's box-office dud was the first movie Gene Wilder made after his wife Gilda Radner passed away, which could be what drew him to this project and the several emotional scenes it required.
