February 25, 2012
A ideological visualization of a love game between a man and a woman who both are obsessed with each other.
Sam Shepard,
Kim Basinger,
Harry Dean Stanton,
Randy Quaid,
Martha Crawford
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Though there are several actors in Fool for Love, two share the majority of screen time: Sam Shepard as Eddie, and Kim Basinger as May. May toils away at a fleabag motel; Eddie is her former love, lon... read more
DVD Release Date: April 20, 2004
Stats: 41 reviews
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May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Altman's staging only underlines the pretentious vagaries built into Shepard's concept. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
With Fool for Love, he has succeeded on two levels that seem opposed to each other. He has made a melodrama, almost a soap opera, in which the characters achieve a kind of nobility. Full Review
July 1, 2011
Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
The basic friction between Altman's lightness and Shepard's portentousness serves the movie in rich and ever-expanding ways, and not just because you can't ever predict how the narrative will swerve. Full Review
August 30, 2007
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It seems like a transplanted drama from the 1950s. Full Review
August 22, 2004
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
A scorching drama about the war between the sexes. Full Review
May 13, 2004
Noel Murray, AV Club
Fool For Love is too removed from the real world to connect as more than a spooky, extradimensional love story. Full Review
March 9, 2006
Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)
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July 7, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
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