I Love Trouble | | Cast : | Nick Nolte, Julia Roberts | | Director : | Charles Shyer | | Studio : | Touchstone Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 29, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | June 03, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Not brilliant, but enjoyable nonetheless | Content
 | This movie--and it's a movie, not a film--features contrived plot twists, an improbable romance, and predictable writing. It's light in every way--just a little scary, just a little romantic, just a little funny. This is not sophisticated movie-making.
However, I have moments when I want a little brain candy to keep my interest without stretching my intellect. And in those moments, I confess, this is what I drag out. Here's the plot: two rival newspaper reporters investigate a suspicious train crash, despise each other, are endangered, fall in love, solve the case. I hope I didn't give too much away. Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte don't have the snappy reparte that the screenwriters were so obviously going for, but close. They're both great-looking and winsome enough to root for. Predictably, Robert's character is smart and sassy, while Nolte plays a womanizing rogue. The glowering but still incompetent bad guys threaten the daring duo without disturbing your dreams. It's not the screwball comedy to which it's paying homage, but it's a grade-B imitation of an enjoyable genre, and sometimes that's enough. Watch it with butter on your fingers. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 16, 2005 | | Summary | Schmultzy and easy-going | Content
| Now they have accepted women in the press, and what's more as reporters, competition among journalists is no longer what it used to be. It was natural among men. It is perverse, perverted and absolutely distorted when men and women are competing for the same scoop. That's why a simple train accident became a real plot and criminal attack that aimed at getting rid of one person and some secrets. Life would have been so much simpler without all that competition. The criminal cover-up of the criminal activity of some chemical firm and not so clear senator or should I say senatress only came out because a woman put her pretty nose in some dirty dish and some silly excited male followed the draft and came running after her. There would have been no crime if there had not been a female reporter on the beat at this very moment. That's why women should not get mixed in real business and the real world : to let things remain simple and not to criminalize simple human transactions. The film is quite schmultzy but it is kind of entertaining, though we know from the very start what is going to happen, but the rhythm is fast enough to make us believe we are really running after a gang of shady characters. We have the impression of running after some shadows like a famous little dog after his tail in some waltz of Chopin's. Except that here we don't really who is running after whose tail or whose tail is running after whom.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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| Rating | | | Date | December 24, 2004 | | Summary | Watch this if there's nothing good on tv | Content
| I Love Trouble is a lightweight romantic comedy of helium-filled proportions. It is effectively a vehicle for everyone's favourite movie darling of the early 1990s, Julia Roberts, to have some fun and look lovely while getting one up on the dastardly male lead played by Nick Nolte.
Nolte plays Peter Brackett, a veteran newspaper columnist for the respected Chicago Chronicle. Ever the ladies man, Brackett can do little wrong in the eyes of the bevy of woman he attracts, his loyal readers, and even his grumpy editor. He manages to fly by the seat of his pants with deadlines looming and get his stories filed on time, every time (even if it does mean plagiarising himself!). Having just released a novel, Brackett is about to hit the book tour circuit, and life is looking good for this charming, yet slightly sleazy bachelor. This is of course until journalistic competition, in the form of the lovely Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts), comes along with her quick wit, sharpened pencil, keen nose for a story, and obligatory short skirt.
In the end, this film runs out of steam and the ludicrous and contrived ending is probably 30 minutes too late in arriving. The actual train crash plot becomes secondary to the romantic battle between the two leads, which rarely sparks into anything other than light-hearted banter and some clichéd one-liners. There are plenty of awfully large plot holes in the story, some wide enough to fit Julia Roberts' smile through sideways, and you will probably find yourself laughing out loud at some of the contrived scenarios. If it was an effort to recapture some of the past glories from the screwball comedies of the late 1930s, it failed miserably.
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| Rating | | | Date | November 24, 2003 | | Summary | Good, Clean Movie | Content
| Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte play reporters working for rival newspapers, with some fun antics following. This movie is reminiscent of a movie that Rock Hudson and Doris Day might have starred in. It is one of my favorites. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 02, 2003 | | Summary | A Sexy Screwball Caper | Content
| Roberts and Nolte are rival reporters chasing after a story involving a train derailment that ultimately leads to murder. This is a chase film set in the same vein as the legendary "Thin Man" series and with Roberts and Nolte it really works. Watch for the hilarious scene where Nolte exposes the 'real' Julia to a troupe of Boy Scouts.
The transfer is not anamorphic but, having said that, there's little else wrong with it. Color balance is strong. Shadow delineation, while not superb, is nevertheless strong and accurate. There are some film artifacts that float by but nothing that terribly distracts. The Dolby Surround track, although not 5.1, has a nice spread along the three front channels of my home theater. No extras, a disappointment, since at one time this film was slated to get a special edition treatment on laserdisc with deleted footage and added scenes. Oh well, what's here is solid and thoroughly enjoyable. If you like madcap adventures this one's for you. |
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