Thing Called Love [VHS]

Thing Called Love [VHS]
by Peter Bogdanovich

Thing Called Love [VHS]

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Actor: Dermot Mulroney, K.T. Oslin, River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Sandra Bullock
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 116 minutes
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Paramount
Studio: Paramount

VHS Movie Reviews of Thing Called Love [VHS]

Movie Review: charlotte lmp
Summary: 3 Stars

I was happy to watch The Thing Called Love , River Phoenix's last completed film work. It was not his absolute best work as many of his other 12 feature films had been, but a few scenes in the film caught the beauty of River external and internal, he seemed to be struggling very hard to focus and his physical appearance had taken a drastic change , but those of us who followed his career could see in this film the actor was and had been the very best of our Generation X . His last role of James Wright allowed him to be a musician ,play and sing as was a great love for River, the human being. He was above all a human being living in this world , he left very early , left us with a small body of work for old and new followers to discover his beautiful talent from his 1st feature film Explorers to his last theatrical release Silent Tongue and everything River Phoenix had done in his lifetime. Discover or rediscover River Phoenix's work again , let's not focus so much on how he died, but how he lived and the film work he left for us to view, past, present, and future followers of his great work. He has been gone exactly 16 years today , October 31, 2009. Let us who enjoyed his completed work watch it again and remember the talented work of River Phoenix forever.

Movie Review: mean mistreating loving heart
Summary: 4 Stars

So what ever happened to Samantha Mathis?
All phoney baloney about country song writers and
Sandra Bullock was completely forgettable in this.
Dermot Mulroney ( the second best actor in the bunch)
is so little country that the good hat looks bad on him.
As a musical, the songs are all just country standards reused?
So the lead girl (Samantha Mathis) made this movie.
River Phoenix is just ugly and a loser
playing a loser?
I kind of liked the movie as it came out true for me,
as it seems women have this kind of taste in men anyway?

Movie Review: The last light of River Phoenix
Summary: 5 Stars

Had this talented young actor not died at such a ripe age I don't think this movie would be the cult classic it is today.
You can't seem to take your eyes off Phoenix in this film and wonder what could have been.
The story is basic. A girl comes to Nashville with a guitar and a dream.
She meets three other young people searching for their own dream. Kyle is in love with Miranda. James and Miranda are in love with each other. Linda is in love with Kyle.
I like that Miranda chose to not so safe choice and went with her heart, and yet you can't help but feel for Kyle.
Some would say Kyle deserved her more, but in the end James needed her more.
Country Music is a big part of this movie with a wonderful cameo by the great Trisha Yearwood.
This movie is funny, sweet, romantic, heartbreaking, endearing and full of life.
Sad that it did not to well when it was first realeased.

Movie Review: Over-rated
Summary: 3 Stars

This was River Phoenix's first adult role, but it's nothing to write home about. Sandra Bullock was new here, too, and you'd never suspect she'd become a big star from this. It's a country-western boy/girl love triangle with some just ok music performed by the actors themselves. Reminds me a bit of "Urban Cowboy." It's not terrible in any way, but why it's a bit of a cult fave, I'm not too sure, other than for the last look at the soon-to-OD Phoenix.

Movie Review: Thankfully We Have This to Keep River With Us
Summary: 5 Stars

What a great movie on every level. How powerful that River, even while so very obviously, quite literally, barely conscious in every scene, even as his body was already departing this earth in this movie, right in front of us, he STILL, barely alive, was more mesmerizing and magnetic on the screen than any other actor before or since. What a singer he would have been, and what a fragile and beautiful human being was lost. Although I love this movie, it actually hurts sometimes to view it.

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Summary of Thing Called Love [VHS]

If there was a universal collective, albeit repressed, dream, it would probably be to become a successful singer. People would take that singing in the car, singing in the shower, and even singing in the rain, and have it be their life's love and work. The Thing Called Love uses this popular aspiration as its setting and examines the lives of four young people hoping to make it in the country music universe. At the center is earnest Miranda Presley--no relation--(Samantha Mathis), the pretty but untalented Linda Lue (Sandra Bullock), the intense and talented James (River Phoenix), and the sweet and prolific Kyle (Dermont Mulroney). Popular country stars make appearances: K.T. Oslin (as Lucy, the owner of the Bluebell, where open-mike auditions are held), Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Katy Moffatt, Jo-El Sonnier, Pam Tillis, Kevin Welch, and even Trisha Yearwood. The film's not merely focused on the rich musical milieu and its talented cast. It also carefully examines the dynamic between friends who are also competitors, as well as a realistic love triangle between the leads. The Thing Called Love is primarily known as one of River Phoenix's last performances, but even if curiosity alone brings audiences to the movie, they'll soon be drawn into the fresh tale of four young people pursuing their dreams. --N.F. Mendoza

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