The performances are convincing, and director Gene Rhee does a good job of outlining the messiness of human affections here, showing how we don't always know what we really want or how to get it.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Ever fast-forward through a late-night cable romance just to get to the good parts? This amateurish relationship dramedy features all the stuff you'd skip, and nothing else.
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New York PostV.A. Musetto
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The toilet caper is the lowest point of a movie with many low points, including bad acting and a generic script.
Unlike Michael Knowles's similarly plotted and vastly superior "Room 314," The Trouble With Romance is visually stagnant and tonally bewildered.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
Can a movie get some "at least we tried" low-budget pity points, man? Move back home, all of you.
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Variety
Variety
Very little that anyone here says, or does, has the slightest connection to any known reality, and if a film is going to perform an autopsy on love, the corpse should at least be recognizable.