Love by express
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Love by express |
| Original title | Overnight delivery |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jason Bloom |
| script |
Steven Bloom , Marc Sedaka |
| production |
Roger Birnbaum , Dan Etheridge , Bradley Jenkel , Brad Krevoy , Steven Stabler |
| music | Andrew Gross |
| camera | Edward J. Pei |
| cut | Luis Colina |
| occupation | |
| |
Love by Express (Original Title: Overnight Delivery ) is an American comedy film directed by Jason Bloom from 1998.
action
Wyatt Trips is studying in college . He believes his girlfriend, Kimberly Jasney, is unfaithful to him, so he sends her a letter with a photo of the stripper Ivy Miller. However, Wyatt later finds that he was wrong.
Wyatt and Ivy then follow the pickup truck of a courier company with the letter. Numerous attempts to take over the show fail. Wyatt even sets the truck on fire. When the delivery agent reaches Jasney's apartment building, Wyatt throws himself at him. However, Wyatt finds that he no longer loves Kimberly, but Ivy.
background
The comedy was shot in Minnesota . Their production cost an estimated twelve million dollars .
Reviews
Christopher Null wrote on filmcritic.com that Reese Witherspoon was playing one of her funniest roles. The action follows the well-known pattern of "taking over a shipment before the girlfriend receives it".
Prisma criticized the plot, "[d] oh what director Jason Bloom makes of it", was "a lot of fun". The lexicon of international films describes Liebe per Express as "[r] omantic comedy without sparkling gags, which tells a familiar story at the usual ready-made level."
Web links
- Overnight Delivery in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Overnight Delivery at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. filmcritic.com ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ↑ Love by express. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
