Love Is the Drug (film)

Love is the Drug also known as Addicted to Her Love is a 2006 American drama produced by Box Office Productions and Alpine Pictures. Directed by Elliott Lester, it was filmed in Los Angeles, California. It was previewed at the Slamdance Film Festival in January 2006 before being released theatrically on a limited basis in Seattle, Washington on October 6, 2006. Starring John Patrick Amedori, Lizzy Caplan, and D.J. Cotrona, the film tells the story of a social outcast who becomes obsessed with a pretty wealthy girl and begins stealing drugs for her friends to be near her. It received mixed reviews from critics.

Love is the Drug debuted as an entry in the January 2006 Slamdance Film Festival. It was given a limited theatrical release in Seattle, Washington on October 6, 2006. It was released to RegionDVD in Australia.Love is the Drug holds a rating of 60 and an average rating of 5.2 out ofon the film aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, based on reviews from five critics. Variety s Justin Chang called the film darkly compelling and a smartly acted and strikingly confident feature, he praised the cinematography and screenplay. He also praised Caplans performance as Sara and felt Cotrona was explosively charismatic, but he criticized the films ending as repetitive and overwrought and found that the final moments played like a cheap stunt. While Seattle Times reviewer Ted Fry praised the film as a small, earnest and generally wellacted movie that infuses a horrifying sense of realism in the sexual and drugfueled behavior of kids who believe they are mature beyond their years, he also criticized the characters as being hard to identify or sympathize with and found Johahs eventual actions to be unpleasantly erratic. Soren Andersen of The News Tribune panned the film, feeling the characters were sympathetic. In particular, he felt Sara was vapid and Lucas a Robert Downey, Jr. doppelgnger and heartlessly manipulative substance abuser. The Seattle PostIntelligencers Bill White gave the film a grade of D and stated that Lester aimed for an edgy teen melodrama and finished with something less than a spineless horror flick. In particular, he felt the ending was as predictable as it is improbable and stated that it seemed like an alternate ending to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, shot by the gaffers during a meal break. ........

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