Review

If love is a game for fools, then in Dunne's sometimes very funny but unrealized black comedy on obsessive love, it's not how you play the game, but whether you win or lose. When his fiancée Linda leaves him for handsome Frenchman Anton, astronomer Sam (Broderick) begins spying on her. He's soon joined by Maggie (Ryan), Anton's former girlfriend, in his Rear Window vigil from the abandoned building across the street. Maggie and Sam then engage in a series of revenge schemes and often hilarious bits of malicious "ex"-bashings. Though nasty as it wants to be, Addicted to Love's shortcoming is that it aims for the jugular but often settles for the aorta; the mean-spiritedness just isn't consistent. When Love loses its edge, it becomes just another dopey, insufficient romantic comedy.