Fresh
If you like your murder tales full of plot twists and turns, and you don't get thrown off by the performances, then this one is as twisty as a snake.
Bob Fenster, Arizona Republic
Goodbye Lover
No one's ever been so good at being so bad.
1999 · 1h 42m · R
Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Roland Joffé
Overview
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
Director and cast
- Roland Joffé Director
- Patricia Arquette as Sandra Dunmore
- Dermot Mulroney as Jake Dunmore
- Mary-Louise Parker as Peggy Blane
- Ellen DeGeneres as Stg. Rita Pompano
- John Neville as Bradley
- Ray McKinnon as Rollins
- Alex Rocco as Det. Crowley
- Don Johnson as Ben Dunmore
- Vincent Gallo as Mike
- Andre Gregory as Rev. Finlayson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
27%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Once the thud of its wooden dialogue has settled into a deadly mechanical clomp -- about 10 minutes into the film -- you wonder why this risible movie didn't go straight to video.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
The movie becomes so convoluted in its wry-noir scheme and narrative twisteroos, it turns banal and wearisome.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Rotten
A neo-noir that puts the 'lack' in black comedy!
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Goodbye Lover is not so much a story as some kind of a board game, with too many pieces and not enough rules.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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