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r 'Addicted To Love'

Congregation Beth Achim Club Night presents
THE MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE PERFORMING

Nikita' s Tcheky Karyo). Sam
wants only to win Linda back;
ank goodness director Grif- Maggie wants only to bring her
fin Dunne had the good taste "ex" pitifully to his knees.
not to use Robert Palmer's
Here, Addicted to Love becomes
ever-annoying version of the less a warm and fuzzy romantic
song "Addicted to Love" for
comedy than a deeply neu-
his film of the same title.
rotic, borderline disturbing,
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Instead, it is replaced by
yet still somehow light-
a barely recognizable, so-
hearted romantic comedy.
phisticated cover by Neneh Cher-
Second-time director Dunne —
ry— and it is played only over the whose father, author Dominick
closing credits. Dunne, makes a cameo as a New
Subtle fake-outs such as these, York Times food critic —is known
sprinkled throughout the film, are most notably for his starring role
what transforms Addicted to Love in the 1985 black comedy After
from what one would expect of a Hours. He brings with him that
movie that stars Meg Ff.,
Ryan and Matthew g
Broderick into the off- !
kilter, and yes, I must E.1
use the word, quirky en- ;ili
tertainrnent that it is. r2
Moviegoers have in- ci
deed come to expect a
certain kind of movie
from Meg Ryan ever
since When Harry Met
Sally; it's a mold she has
been desperately trying
to break. In this team-
ing with Matthew Brod-
erick, it looks at first like
Ryan is up to her old
tricks: heartwarming
love and romance.
We soon realize, how-
ever, that Addicted to
Love is anything but
heartwarming — or is
it?
Sam (Matthew Brod- Meg Ryan teams up with Matthew Broderick in
erick) is a small-town as- Addicted to Love.
tronomer, hopelessly in love with film's dark humor and juxtaposes
his childhood sweetheart, Linda Sam's sweet innocence with that
(Kelly Preston). When she leaves same darkness — but it doesn't
him, Sam follows her to New York, quite come off naturally.
moves into an abandoned build-
Broderick's character, in the
ing and watches her — with her end, doesn't seem to know who
new French boyfriend.
he's supposed to be; Ryan, hard as
In falls (literally) Maggie (Meg she may try to break her mold, still
Ryan), who's out to wreak falls into her old mannerisms.
vengeance on her ex-fiance, who
Still fun, funny and surprising,
also happens to be Linda's French Addicted to Love is also, unfortu-
boyfriend (played by La Femme nately, forgettable.

"From Broadway with Love"

Rated R

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Lynne Konstantin is our Out &

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