Love Liza

Love Liza

2002 · 90 min · EN · R · 6.4 (123 votes)
Dir. Todd Louiso · Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Kehler, Sarah Koskoff, Stephen Tobolowsky, Erika Alexander, Shannon Holt · Music Jim O'Rourke

“A Comic Tragedy”

ComedyDrama

Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.

VIBE

A devastating portrait of grief and addiction. It feels like drowning in quiet despair, punctuated by moments of bleak, dark humor. A raw, unflinching look at the aftermath of loss.

melancholicdevastatednumbwistfulslow-burnindie dramacharacter studyrawunflinchinggriefaddictionlossisolation
suicidelovesicknessdrug abusegas stationsadnessmother-in-lawgrieving widowermodel airplanegasolinewidowerglue sniffingdeath of wiferadio controlleddegradation of lifestylesuicide letterfalling aparttragicomedyrc cars