#i love you to death
“The star of Stand By Me, The Mosquito Coast, Running on Empty and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is cast in I Love You to Death as a pizza maker who joins fellow cooks William Hurt and Keanu Reeves in staging attempts on the life of pizzeria owner Kevin Kline, on behalf of Kline’s jealous wife Tracey Ullman. While the picture sounds like a bizarre black comedy, Phoenix sees it as having an “emotional, even moral” resonance. Phoenix’s strong moral point of view can be explained by his “early childhood, growing up around people that were really humble, with a lifestyle that called for a lot of faith, without money…You couldn’t be an asshole.” —River of Dreams [Movieline, Dec 1989]
style icon: river phoenix as devo in i love you to death.
i have deep affection for this odd, flawed, rather silly movie. phoenix in his interrogation, stone walling the detectives? amiright? there was a time when being a hippy also meant being cynical, dark, and a even a little smug.
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