When Will I Be Loved

Starring:Neve Campbell, Emily Coker, Kendria Colford, Victor Colletti, Alex Feldman, Oliver 'Power' Grant, Bridget Lee Hall, Cara Hamill, Erin Omar, James Parris, Thomas Patti, Megan Pepin, Christina Rotholz, Ashley Shelton, Lori Singer, Brandon Sommers, Mike Tyson, Jean-Pierre Vertus, Fred Weller
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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Neve Campbell is an arresting enigma in When Will I Be Loved, one of writer-director James Toback's most mysterious and successful minimalist dramas about sex, deception, and mutable identities in New York City. Campbell plays twentysomething beauty Vera, whose nude shower scene during the film's opening credits looks more like mythic preparation for a soon-to-be-fateful day than brazen exploitation. Ensconced in a fantastic loft paid for by her parents (Barry Primus, Karen Allen), the unemployed Vera embarks on an odyssey that begins with a mutually deceitful job interview with a college professor (Toback), leads to misadventures in questionable perception in Central Park, and climaxes with Vera's successful manipulation of two powerful men, one a craven lover (Fred Weller) and the other an Italian billionaire (Dominic Chianese) trying to get her in bed for a lot of money. Provocative as a good urban legend, the film sticks with one for a long time. --Tom Keogh

Description

Neve Campbell, Dominic Chianese and Fred Weller star in this smoldering erotic thriller about a femme fatale exploring the frightening reach of her sexual power - and the red-hot fusion of money, power and desire. Directed by James Toback, When Will I Be Loved is an "illumination of sexual and identity politics" (Slant Magazine) that sizzles and seduces.

Customer Reviews:

Nice flick to pass the time away........2007-06-23

Neve Cambell is six years older than she was in "Wild Things" She has never looked more beautiful or sexier than in this movie. The opening scene proves that. All in all, the characters are well developed & believable. There is a element of "Indecent Proposal" (1993) but not a ripoff. Nice flick to watch while sipping wine in front of the fireplace with you main squeeze. Nothing to get excited about, except, Neve's awesome bod.

As Vera, Campbell plays a free spirited bisexual with a girlfriend. An eccentric European Count sees her & offers 100 grand if she will sleep with him. Vera ups the ante to a million dollars in cash. He agrees to do! However, Vera already rich & she does not like the thought of men trying buy her. She plots a scheme to con the count.

Not that great of a film.......2007-01-09

Story is very weak and the acting is robotic. I suggest missing this flick.

WHY?.......2006-12-07

After reading many of the earlier reviews I can only conclude that the reviewers were watched one movie and wrote about another. The movie seemed to be a series of isolated conversations that made no real sense.

The back of the DVD case leads you to believe this is a 'smoldering erotic thriller'. I guess the movie is so short (only 81 minuts) because all the eroticism ended up on the cutting room floor. When Will I Be Loved is almost as erotic as a Kermit the Frog cartoon.

I recomand this DVD only to people that are planing a lawn party and nave a need for miniature frisbies.

One star only because I can not award a lower number.

Interesting yet somewhat strange character study is worth a look .......2006-12-01

Typical James Toback fare here: a leisurely story laced with edgy sex in stylish New York living spaces that are just as alluring and sexy as the beautiful bodies. Plusses: a courageously-on-display Neve Campbell, some good exchanges between Ms. Campbell and Dominic Chianese, and a short running time. Minuses mainly consist of several head-scratching moments, including a needless Mike Tyson cameo and a weird tryst in the park. When it's all over, you've gotten enough of a portrait of the Campbell character for the story to work as a character study, though enough of the director's intent remains mysterious enough that the movie ultimately feels like an art-film exercise. So, if you don't have a lot of patience for films with an ambiguous art-house feel, you might want to stay away from this. The DVD extras are somewhat illuminating and interesting.

The movie might have accomplished just as much by using cardboard cut-outs........2006-10-31

This was one weird and rather pretentious movie, but it held my interest. It did feel like writer/director Toback forgot to write a third act. Neve Campbell plays a manipulative sexpot whose boyfriend (Fred Weller) prostitutes her to some rich older Italian guy (Dominic Chianese). The situation is pretty much ripped off from "Indecent Proposal." Toback's film is interesting outside of the plot, especially in the introductory sequence, which cuts back and forth between Campbell and Weller without telling us how they're connected. Through out this film we have some odd cameos thrown in by real people not really playing themselves, including Mike Tyson, Lori Singer, rapper Damon Dash, let alone writer/director James Toback himself playing the name-dropping Professor Hassan al-Ibrahim ben Rabinowitz.

I believe Neve Campbell could have done better than this soft-core porn. In this story her character seemed to have it all, but yet still wanted to rebel and test the boundaries, and she needed the million dollars like a hole in the head, since the doting parents were already giving her everything she needed. I won't say how it ended, but it could have been done differently instead of it ending abruptly and unsatisfactorily.

I agree with the some reviewers who said that the music was overdone and too loud. I think that was probably done on purpose, to cover up all the lame scenes that would have been horrifically boring otherwise without some sort of distraction. The only really watchable scene that caught my interest was with her and Dominic Chianese. The dialogue and acting during their scene was really interesting.

Of course, if you've heard about this movie at all - and most have not, I think - it's because of Neve's naked body. She did the sex thing, and even the lesbian thing, way back in "Wild Things." That was just barely a step above pornography. The year before that, Neve worked with Robert Altman, in a project which she herself initiated. I guess with "When Will I Be Loved," she decided that, now that she's becoming a respectful actress, she had to do an art movie where she gets naked and makes out with a girl. In reality, this is about a step and a half above porn.

Other than that it's an interesting little film that has a good performance by Campbell and while this is not exactly riveting in terms of drama it does give fans of Toback another chance to view his unique talent.

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