- Love Liza
Infobox Film
name = Love Liza
image_size =
caption = Movie poster
director =Todd Louiso
producer =Ruth Charny Chris Hanley Corky O'Hara Jeffrey Roda Fernando Sulichin
writer =Gordy Hoffman
narrator =
starring =Philip Seymour Hoffman Kathy Bates
music = Jim O'Rourke
cinematography =Lisa Rinzler
editing =Ann Stein
distributor =Columbia TriStar ,Sony Pictures Classics
released =January 14 2002
runtime = 90 mins
country = flagicon|FranceFrance
flagicon|GermanyGermany
USA
language = English
budget = $1,000,000 (estimated)
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website = http://www.sonyclassics.com/loveliza/flash.html
amg_id = 1:259844
imdb_id = 0282698"Love Liza" is a
2002 comedy drama film directed byTodd Louiso and starringPhilip Seymour Hoffman ,Kathy Bates ,Jack Kehler ,Wayne Duvall ,Sarah Koskoff andStephen Tobolowsky .tory
Wilson Joel's (
Philip Seymour Hoffman ) wife Liza (Annie Morgan ) has, for an unexplained reason, committed suicide. Wilson one night discovers a sealed letter from his wife, which he believes to be her suicide note. In his grief stricken state and with the added stress of finding the letter, which he can not bring himself to open and read, he forms an addiction with inhalinggasoline fumes (“huffing ”).In order to hide his addiction from a work colleague he informs her that the petrol smell in his house is from his hobby of flying remote controlled planes. To try and engage an ever distant Wilson, she asks her brother-in-law Denny (
Jack Kehler ), aradio control (RC) hobbyist, to visit Wilson. With the knowledge of an impending visit by Denny, Wilson heads down to the local RC hobbyist shop to buy himself a plane. He also stocks up on some RC fuel to fill his plane and feed his addiction. Out of this lie a very unusual friendship forms between Wilson and an energetic Denny.His mother-in-law (
Kathy Bates ) tries her best to help Wilson, and deal with her own loss at the same time. She becomes increasingly anxious to know the contents of the letter.Quotes
*Wilson Joel: Do you know who I am?……. I’m a big fan of Radio Control!
*This is the bad boy boat, Wilson
*I've been crying
*Not today
*Do you smell gasoline?
*Are you going to Slidell?
*This isn't the hotel, Denny
Trivia
*Much of the film was shot in
Mobile, Alabama .External links
*imdb title|0282698
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