Great acting by hoffman, great soundtrack also. but didnt move me as much as id liked it to have.

Not enough from everything, was a bit disapointing. But Seymour shows his great potencial.

Harrowing movie about drug addiction and coping with loss. The Jim O'Rourke score is stirring and Louiso's long shot-dominated cinematography lingers on all the right moments. Still, the movie is almost uniformly depressing, even when it's funny. Although it deftly avoids predictability most of the time, it falls into that one trap that seems to get all drug movies: you can only watch a downhill slide for so long before you don't even want to look at the screen anymore.

A decent PSH performance in one incredibly misjudged and laughable film.

"What with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background, you may mistake Love Liza for an Adam Sandler Chanukah song." - Ed Gonzalez

PSH puts on a very convincing performance as both a grieving lover, and a secretive drug addict.

I didn't find this bad. I got pretty involved with the plot and characters, even though not much really went on, I managed to hang in there. Great acting.

Hoffman does a fantastic job as always, it sjust not a very engaging movie

Nice character piece for Philip Seymour Hoffman, plus a great score by Jim O'Rourke, one of my favorites. Depressing, but with some good comic moments.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays a widower to a wife who was much too hot for him. Despite the implausibility of him ever ending up with her most of the performances in this movie were top notch

Jim O'Rourke will soon be remembered as one of the best composers of our time. His music fits the movie realy well here, and Hoffman's great acting drives the movie. It's short and a bit uneventful, but the ending sequence is very moving and brilliantly done.

This won a screenwriting prize at Sundance, one of those performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman that signalled that he was not your ordinary actor. A bit tough to sit through--he's miserable, grieving, self-destructive.

im a fan of philip seymour hoffman, but this is an abomination, really...he gets addicted to huffing gasonline, are you kidding me? other than the retarded premise, none of the other aspects of this movie are worthy of capturing any attention.

So many people assured me I would like this, but I didn't. I like movies that most people would describe as "depressing" but this is something else. It is dark with no implication, let alone outright statement, that life can be good. Philip Seymour Hoffman & Kathy Bates are very good though, so it's not all bad.

good acting but not enough material for a film

Unspectacular, but likeable. A film that is entirely built around Philip Seymour Hoffman, who is not really required to do anything spectacular here. Decent though.