Love Liza (2002)

Very best movie i ever watch

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

...was Kathy Bates, "You had it all!" Otherwise, painstakingly sat through this just to see what the letter said. Depressing story of a man on a downward spiral. Highly unlikely there would be no mishaps while sucking gas fumes. Only if you love PSH should you watch this movie.

Great character study, carried by Philip Seymor Hoffman. A man's wife suddenly kills herself, and distraught he in turn begins a self destructive lifestyle of huffing gasoline. In order to explain why he's carrying gas around with him, he lies and says it's for remote controlled air planes. After a gas attendant finally calls him on it, he begins a bender/mental collapse induced mission to find a remote control plane competition. Slow paced, but rewarding, and sincere. Though bleak at times it's one of the most emotionally rich looks at grief, I've ever seen in a film. Or wanted to see, for that matter, because the subject disinterested me from the word go. Anway it's a great thing to be proved wrong sometimes.

Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Wilson, a software engineer who has just lost his wife to suicide. The movie traces Wilson's descent into gasoline sniffing, erratic behavior, wanton risk taking, and ultimate self-destruction.P.S.H. and Kathy Bates turn in good performances but, whereas Hoffman is the central focus, his performance is a little more mannered and forced than we have come to expect from him.Maybe there is no more meaning to grief than as a highly personal experience, but as a moviegoer having suffered through this man's trauma for an hour and a half I wanted more reward. The hook to keep us interested was the suicide note, but it turned out to be rather generic. At the end we are just left with lots of questions: what was Wilson's wife like, did he drive her to suicide, how come he had no friends, what was it in the relationship that the suicide knocked him for such a loop, what was he like before the suicide, does the final scene imply that Wilson has taken the final step into madness or that the only way for him to recover was to leave everything behind?If you are a P.S.H fan, then maybe there is enough here for you, but I think this movie will be a little too dark for most viewers.

If you are lucky enough to stumble upon this film as I did, your hooked before you know it. It is a movie that appeals to the voyeuristic nature of the human species. When watching it you almost feel like you rented a movie and someonemistakenly returned their home video instead of what you meant to rent. It is not a film that uses any of the usual methods to grab you. For instance sex, action or overt violence. Instead the appeal is in the reality of the story. You see immediately the pain Wilson feels and at no point question why he is going down the road he is. Of course all of this is due to Phillip Seymour Hoffman's incredible ability to be the character he is portraying. This story follows the slow descent into drug use, depression and despair by a man who recently and unexpectedly has lost the love of his life. A few other interesting characters are introduced, most importantly his mother-in-law played by the incredible Kathy Bates. There is a raw and very basic truth to this movie that anyone can see and empathise on the very least.