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Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Romance; With: Danny DeVito, Holly Hunter and Queen Latifah

It's an old chick-flick story: Wife gets dumped by husband for a younger woman, struggles to start over, and gradually gets a life. But Judith Moore (Holly Hunter), the heroine of Living Out Loud isn't just another unmarried woman. All raw nerves and quicksilver mood swings, she's a vitally engaging reclamation project, whether delivering a neurotic interior monologue over a lonely meal, making a drunken spectacle of herself in a nightclub, or tentatively bonding with two fellow losers in love (Danny DeVito as a sad-sack doorman, Queen Latifah as a semi-successful chanteuse). As it charts Judith's romantic rebirth, the film evokes more deeply felt smiles than cathartic tears, and maybe that's why it wasn't a big theatrical success. But in its artfully awkward intimacies and nakedly candid emotions, it makes a perfect movie to curl up with on a sofa. A-


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Posted Mar 19, 1999
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