Peter Brackett and Sabrina Peterson are two competing Chicago newspaper reporters who join forces to unravel the mystery behind a train derailment.
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's past.
A taxi driver with a penchant for conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of these theories turns out to be true. But their relationship is so featherweight, so delicate, that it keeps getting ground up in the wheels of a conventional thriller plot. The secretary to a phony psychiatrist finds herself caught up in the murder of a patient's wife and realizes that her life is also in danger. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? I think sometimes she does. Certificate: Passed The detective eventually learns that the husband had killed his wife when he discovered her past in order to avoid a scandal, and had hired the detective to try and frame him for the killing. This lightweight stuff all works, in its own way, but I'm not sure it fits easily into a story that also involves the two of them almost being crushed to death by an elevator, among other close calls.Julia Roberts is by general agreement the No. Read Full Synopsis Cast + Crew Previous Cast Members More Cast Members. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. When each gets setup to be killed at the same place, they escape, and then agree to work together. While they initially do not trust one another, they eventually come to work together to uncover the truth behind the train crash.Rated PG for some mild language, sensuality and gunplay Shots like this let you know where you stand: This is not a serious thriller, but a light romantic comedy, in which the future lovers spend most of the film sparring, while only we can see they are destined for one another. There are three main problems with the movie. 1 female star in the movies today, and so I watched her like a hawk: Does she have the stuff to justify her paycheck? A nurse falls in love with a terminally ill man. Book thief/forger sells a fake book to a Nazi through a female agent. After they both get assigned to cover a big train wreck, it goes without saying that Roberts scoops Nolte day after day, until they both get involved in uncovering a dangerous conspiracy, and their survival depends on them learning to trust one another - while continuing to be bitter competitors, of course.In this kind of movie, the details of the mystery hardly matter.The classic in the genre is "Bringing Up Baby" (1938), in which Cary Grant and The hormone isn't important. Use the HTML below. Nolte makes a good foil for her, with his exasperation and macho ego. The whole concept is, well, Troubled. Unfortunately, to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor. Veteran reporter Peter Brackett is enjoying new found fame after his book, "White Lies" is published. Read 15 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. See Full Cast + Crew for I Love Trouble Features Load More Features … One, the attempt to graft the noirish elements onto a hi-tech industrial-intrigue plot, which results in an uncomfortable mix of pulp culture from two generations: the hardboiled detectives of the '40s thrust into the … What is important is that the search for the secret causes Nolte and Roberts to trick and double-cross each other until the action climax where they are literally hanging on by their fingernails, while bad guys shoot at them and they are still trying to scoop one another. Was this review helpful to you? A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Henry Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Edward Hyde. Casting Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte in the leads might've been a gamble that paid off, but the ruff-n-bitchy chemistry they try to create doesn't click, mainly because the lines in the script are so stale. Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Peter Brackett and Sabrina Peterson are two competing Chicago newspaper reporters who join forces to unravel the mystery behind a train derailment. 30 June 2001 | moonspinner55 The picture looks expensive, and the plot isn't a con (I suppose it is fully thought out), but who even wants to see Julia Roberts in a Tracy-Hepburn knock-off like this? I LOVE TROUBLE is a bumpy, uneven reprise of the old-fashioned Hollywood newspaper comedy.
A hard-boiled private investigator finds lots of trouble while on a missing persons case. 12 of 45 people found this review helpful. Tame leopards and dinosaur bones, for example.Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. And who wants to see her kissing Nick Nolte? Was this review helpful to you? I Love Trouble is not trouble-loving enough, and as a result, Roberts doesn’t have enough to do to stay sharp, Nolte doesn’t have enough to do to stay soft. What I can never figure out in these movies is why the bad guys are so eager to sell the cancer-causing hormone in the first place, since it will eventually lead to billions of dollars in lawsuits.
Sabrina's messy wet hair is also inconsistent during this scene. Use the HTML below. She never pushes too hard. $7,827,002 It was written and produced by the husband-and-wife team of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, and directed by Shyer. When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband. During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign nuclear spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.