Synopsis
It's Valentine's Day and Tom has big plans. He's about to get engaged and has a surprise party planned to share the good news with friends. But things take a turn for the worse. Tom returns home only to discover his girlfriend has packed up and left him. Now, instead of a surprise party, the surprise is on Tom. Fortunately, his friends are there to help him make sense of it all.
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Cast
- Cuba Gooding Jr.Tom
- Matthew LillardSal
- Sean AstinGeroge
- Terrence 'T.C.' CarsonKwame
- Anne HecheLaura
- Gina GershonRachel
- Tamala JonesKatherine
- Shiri ApplebyDebbie
- Jud TylorAmy
- Gillian ShureKaren
Recommendations
- 67
Austin Chronicle
In its own peculiar way, What Love Is is a testament to the redemptive power of words. Thankfully, Callahan knows to keep it short and sweet, lest his audience go mad from the noise. - 30
Variety
Picture looks and sounds like an Off Off Broadway play. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
An acquired taste. - 20
Chicago Reader
Romantic comedies should never be this exhausting. Despite a few good zingers, Mars Callahan's vitriolic take on the sexes sinks under the weight of its secondhand psychobabble and smug apercus. - 10
L.A. Weekly
Actor-writer-director Mars Callahan's diarrheal 10-character rant about modern relationships sounds like it was researched by eavesdropping on the restroom chatter at a high school prom. - 0
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's a shrill cacophony of puerile clichés about men and women and sex, delivered in adrenaline-driven harangues and arrogant lectures. When the stage clears, all that's left is the unpleasant odor of all that hot air. - 0
Los Angeles Times
Devotes itself to inflicting serious pain upon innocent moviegoers who wander into what is perhaps the single most poorly conceived and ineptly executed movie released to theaters in quite some time. - 0
The Hollywood Reporter
The problem is that if Callahan spent even a week writing this script, he wasted four good days. The dialogue, characters and situations are distressingly bad.
