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Big Bad Love is a 2001 film directed by Arliss Howard, who co-wrote the script with his brother, James Howard, based on a collection of short stories of the same name by Larry Brown.
Oct 11, 2001 · With Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, Rosanna Arquette. Barlow is a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, long-haired, and deeply unhappy aspiring writer who pulls a dozen rejection slips out of his mailbox every day while trying to get through his life with some semblance of purpose.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Arliss Howard
- 2001-10-11
A boozy depiction of a struggling writer, Big Bad Love is too messy and self-indulgent. An investigation into what it takes to make a thing. A chair, a soufflé, a pistol, a bridge. They come...
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- Arliss Howard
Mar 15, 2002 · "Big Bad Love" can, and is filled with characters who love and accept him, even though he is a full-time, gold-plated pain in the can. Leon is a college graduate (no doubt of creative writing classes) who has adopted a Good Old Drunk persona that wavers between the tiresome and the obnoxious.
It's about running after something that you can never catch, and running from something you can never elude: As many kinds of love as there are in the world,...
Based on the acclaimed short-story collection by celebrated Mississippi writer Larry Brown, “Big Bad Love” is the tale of struggling Mississippi writer Leon Barlow (Arliss Howard) working to make fiction from his past, his dreams, and the dim sound of the future bearing down on him.
2001 Directed by Arliss Howard. Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn’t much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn’t approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol.
