I Think I Love My Wife

Infobox Film
name = I Think I Love My Wife


caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
writer = Louis C.K.
Chris Rock
starring = Chris Rock
Kerry Washington
Gina Torres
Steve Buscemi
director = Chris Rock
producer = Chris Rock
Lisa Stewart
distributor = Fox Searchlight Pictures
UTV Motion Pictures
released = March 16, 2007 (USA)
runtime = 90 min.
budget = $11 million
language = English
amg_id = 1:352011
imdb_id = 0770772

"I Think I Love My Wife" is a romantic comedy-drama 2007 film directed by and starring Chris Rock. It is a remake of the 1972 French film, "Love in the Afternoon" by Éric Rohmer. Rock also co-wrote the screenplay with Louis C.K.

Plot

Richard Cooper (Chris Rock) is a happily married man, professionally successful, perfectly content with his home life, his lovely wife Brenda (Gina Torres), and his two young children. He finds his life great, yet he is extremely bored. He and his wife never have sex anymore, which is a constant theme around the movie, and this causes him to be rather sex starved. During those dull days at the office, he occasionally fantasizes about other women, but never acts upon the rather harmless impulses. However, an encounter with an incredibly sexy old friend Nikki (Kerry Washington) suddenly casts doubt over his typically resilient self-control. At first she just wants to be his friend, or so she claims, but she begins to show up consistently at his office just to talk or have lunch, which causes his boss, secretaries and peers to view him with varying contempt. When Nikki begins to deliberately seduce Richard, he doesn't know what to do. Later in the movie, she and her "boyfriend" are about to move to LA. Nikki asks Richard to come to her apartment later to say a "proper" goodbye, so he buys a pack of condoms and finds Nikki in her underwear on her bed. They are about to have sex but he thinks of his wife and children and runs off as an angered Nikki calls out his name. He goes back home to his happy wife and kids and decides to never see Nikki again.

Production

Charles Stone III was slated to direct the film but dropped out of the project. [http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1775331,00.html]

This is the second time Chris Rock and Kerry Washington have been paired on screen, the previous time they were in "Bad Company" playing a couple.

Mumbai based UTV Motion Pictures made their entry into the American market by co-producing the film.

Reception

When the film was released, the film received generally negative reviews. However, there were exceptions, including a notably positive review from The New York Times. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 19% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 105 reviews. Users of Rotten Tomatoes gave the film 4.6/10 average rating. Metacritic reported that 49% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 30 reviews. Users of Metacritic gave the film an average rating of 3.8/10 based on 35 reviews. When the film was released at the box office, it grossed $5 million on its opening weekend reaching #5. The film eventually grossed a worldwide total of $13 million, 2 million more than its budget, making it technically a financial success.

References

External links

* [http://www.foxsearchlight.com/ithinkilovemywife/ "I Think I Love My Wife"] at Fox Searchlight Pictures
* [http://www.movietickets.com/movie_detail.asp?movie_id=54630 "I Think I Love My Wife"] at MovieTickets.com
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