Synopsis
Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling random women on the street to the point that he takes lunch late to look at them. When old crush Nikki Tru visits his office to get a reference letter, she becomes obsessed with Cooper and they begin a complicated relationship.
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Cast
- Chris RockRichard Cooper
- Gina TorresBrenda Cooper
- Kerry WashingtonNikki Tru
- Steve BuscemiGeorge
- Edward HerrmannMr. Landis
- Vanessa Lee ChesterHannah Thomas
- Welker WhiteMary
- Darius McCraryMichael Boyd
- Samantha IversTracy
- Michael Kenneth WilliamsTeddy
Recommendations
- 70
Washington Post
The movie is hilarious...there's Rock's encounter with Viagra, which I can't describe but has to be one of the funniest scenes of the decade. - 67
The A.V. Club
Though hampered at times by Rock's limitations as an actor and a director, I Think I Love My Wife stays faithful to the spirit of Rohmer's original, grappling honestly with the uncertainties of settling down and the temptations that lurk outside even the most stable marriages. - 63
New York Daily News
For each joke that is fresh, there are at least three that fall thuddingly flat. Rock suffers a problem common to comedians moving from sketches to features; he hasn't quite been able to get his performance level above caricature. To his credit, he's made more of this than you'd expect from the lame premise. - 63
Chicago Tribune
The results fall short of the grown-up comedy about seven-year itches it could've been, asking the Hamlet-like question: to scratch or not to scratch? - 50
Variety
The main drawback is that under director Rock, actor Rock doesn't possess quite the chops to pull off this character, and the humor and flights of fancy are simply too low-key. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
I Think I Love My Wife has got to be the unlikeliest French New Wave classic ever to be retrofitted by a famous African-American stand-up comedian best known for his stinging social commentary -- at least until Dave Chappelle remakes Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" as a hip-hop caper. - 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
A movie that provokes as many rueful sighs as it does bruising laughs. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
In I Think I Love My Wife, Chris Rock does something entirely unexpected. He isn't funny.
