Love Liza Movie Review 2002

An acquired taste of a film that rests firmly on the slumped shoulders of Hoffman. He's Wilson Joel, whose wife Liza has just committed suicide (by carbon-monoxide poisoning in her car). He can't read the note she left him, can't deal with her sympathetic mother Mary Ann (Bates), can't--in fact--do much of anything except mope. Oh, and huff. Yes, Wilson decides to cope with his trauma by inhaling gasoline fumes (the fuel used in his model airplane hobby). Soon, his addiction is all there is to his sad sack existence.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 90 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Widows & Widowers, In-Laws, Suicide, Drug Use & Abuse

Screenplay

Gordy Hoffman

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Jack Kehler, Stephen Tobolowsky, Sarah Koskoff, Erika Alexander

Cinematography

Lisa Rinzler

Director

Todd Louiso

Music

Jim O'Rourke

Other

Skip Gordon, Ann Stein, Tim Cohn, Jill Newell, Stephen Beatrice

Producer

Ruth Charny, Chris Hanley, Fernando Sulichin, Jeff Roda, Black List Films, Kinowelt Filmproduktion, Wild Bunch, Studio Canal Plus, MUSE Productions, Sony Pictures Classics

Awards

Sundance 2002: Screenplay.