Funny About Love is a 1990 American romantic comedy

Romantic Comedy

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 film

Film

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 starring Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder

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, directed by Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy

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. It was written by Norman Steinberg and David Frankel

David Frankel

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, based on the article "Convention of the Love Goddesses" in Esquire Magazine

Esquire (magazine)

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by Bob Greene

Bob Greene

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.

Plot

New York cartoonist Duffy Bergman (Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, and author.Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers...

) marries gourmet chef Meg Lloyd (Christine Lahti

Christine Lahti

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). Meg decides she wants to have a baby, and Duffy eventually agrees. After unsuccessfully trying to impregnate Meg, they eventually separate.

Duffy speaks at a Delta Gamma

Delta Gamma

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 sorority convention in Arizona

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 and explains that the Delta Gammas have always been his dream girls -- his Love Goddesses. There he meets Daphne Delillo (Mary Stuart Masterson

Mary Stuart Masterson

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). When Daphne moves to New York to work as a network sports reporter, their attraction develops into a relationship. Duffy must decide which of the two principal women in his life is more important to him.

Principal cast

Actor	Role
Gene Wilder Gene Wilder Gene Wilder is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, and author.Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers...	Duffy Bergman
Christine Lahti Christine Lahti Christine Lahti is an American actress and film director. Lahti has had a successful career in television and film. Throughout her career she has garnered 2 Golden Globe Awards from 8 Nominations, An Emmy Award from 6 Nominations and 2 Academy Award nominations...	Meg Lloyd Bergman
Mary Stuart Masterson Mary Stuart Masterson Mary Stuart Masterson is an American film, stage and television actress and director.-Early life:Masterson was born in New York City to writer/director Peter Masterson and actress Carlin Glynn. She has two siblings: Peter Masterson Jr., and Alexandra Masterson, who are both involved in the...	Daphne
Robert Prosky Robert Prosky Robert Prosky was an American stage, film, and television actor.-Life and career:Prosky, a Polish American, was born Robert Joseph Porzuczek in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Helen and Joseph Porzuczek. His father was a grocer and butcher...	E.T.
Stephen Tobolowsky Stephen Tobolowsky Stephen Harold Tobolowsky is an American actor. He is well known for his role as Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day, as well as portraying Commissioner Hugo Jarry in Deadwood for nine episodes and Bob Bishop in Heroes for eleven episodes over the second and third seasons...	Hugo
Wendie Malick Wendie Malick Wendie Malick is an American actress and former fashion model, known for her roles as Judith Tupper Stone on the HBO series Dream On , Nina Van Horn on the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! , Ronee Lawrence on the NBC sitcom Frasier and Victoria Chase on the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland .-Early...	Nancy
Anne Jackson Anne Jackson Anne Jackson is an American actress of television, stage, and screen.-Life and career:Jackson, the youngest of three sisters, was born in Millvale, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Stella Germaine and John Ivan Jackson, a barber who ran a beauty parlor...	Adele
Susan Ruttan Susan Ruttan Susan Ruttan is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Roxanne Melman on L.A. Law . She reprised the role in 2002 for the TV reunion L.A...	Claire
Freda Foh Shen Freda Foh Shen Freda Foh Shen is an Asian American theatre, film and television actress.In 1990 she played Carmen in Jean Genet's play The Balcony at the Hudson Guild Theater in New York....	Nurse
Regis Philbin Regis Philbin Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Philbin is often called "the hardest working man in show business" and holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera...	Himself
Patrick Ewing Patrick Ewing Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. is a Jamaican-American retired Hall of Fame basketball player and current assistant coach for the National Basketball Association's Orlando Magic. He played most of his career with the NBA's New York Knicks as their starting center and played briefly with the Seattle...	Himself

Box office

Funny About Love opened in 1,213 theaters on September 21, 1990 and grossed $3,036,352 in its opening weekend, landing at #5, behind Goodfellas

Goodfellas

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, Postcards from the Edge

Postcards from the Edge

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s second weekend, Ghost

Ghost (film)

Ghost is a 1990 romantic drama film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. It was written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker.-Plot:...

s eleventh, and Narrow Margin

Narrow Margin

Narrow Margin is a 1990 film directed by Peter Hyams and released by TriStar Pictures, loosely based on the 1952 film noir, The Narrow Margin.-Plot:...

. The film would eventually gross $8,141,292 in the domestic box office.

Critical reception

The film received very poor reviews, carrying a 0% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes

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.

Janet Maslin

Janet Maslin

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 of the New York Times found the film average.
Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

 of the Chicago Sun-Times

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had nothing but disdain for the film, giving it only a half of a star rating out of the four stars scale he uses.