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  • What Love Is
  • Opened March 23, 2007
  • R
    pervasive language including graphic sexual dialogue, and some erotic dancing
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says not for kids. Read More
  • On Valentine's Day, Tom (Cuba Gooding Jr.) stops at a local bar to down a glass of courage on his way home to ask his live-in lover to marry him. Seeing some of his best friends there, he invites them to drop by later for a celebratory party. Read More
  • Cast: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Matthew Lillard, Mars Callahan, Sean Astin, Andrew Daly
  • Director: Mars Callahan
  • Genres: Comedy

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What Love Is Recent Fan Reviews

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    What Love is

    by tohos

    I got the message of the movie. I can see how most people won't. 95% of the world has no idea what love really is and if you have no idea what it is then you probably won't recognize it when you see it. Most people believe that love is what they feel for a person. Love is not about what you feel; it is how you want the person you love to feel. When you care about another person more than you care about yourself then that is Love and that is the message in this movie. It is how most people feel for their children, most people would rather die before allowing harm come to their child.

  • Go

    You can't handle the truth

    Had to drive all the way to Austin to see the movie, but well worth it. The sexual dialogue was strong but very funny. Fast paced dialogue so have popcorn in hand before the movie starts.

  • Oh No!

    Absolutely horrible!

    The ad says, "great cast", the ad says, "comedy", "feel-good" movie. IT IS THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE SEEN IN 20 YEARS. It is so far from what you would expect from the ad or the trailers, they should be sued for false advertising. It takes place in a house...in the living room of a house for almost 2 hours, with about 10 minutes in the bathroom, and 10 seconds outside the house. And if you can follow the 100 mile per hour dialogue, you might catch a couple of almost funny one-liners. Did someone have rich friends to get this film on the big screen to ultimately suck the public into spending their hard-earned cash on this crap through misleading trailers and ads? Do not bring your date to this film, as you will surely not be holding hands by the end of the film, if you can even stay seated in the theatre.

What Love Is Critic Reviews

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  • 67
    Austin Chronicle |

    In its own peculiar way, What Love Is is a testament to the redemptive power of...

  • 30
    Variety |

    Picture looks and sounds like an Off Off Broadway play.

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    An acquired taste.

  • 20
    Chicago Reader | Andrea Gronvall

    Romantic comedies should never be this exhausting. Despite a few good zingers,...

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