Goodbye Lover

Goodbye Lover
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRoland Joffé
Screenplay byRon Peer
Joel Cohen
Alec Sokolow
Story byRon Peer
Produced byAlexandra Milchan
Patrick McDarrah
Joel Roodman
Chris Daniel
Starring
CinematographyDante Spinotti
Edited byWilliam Steinkamp
Music byJohn Ottman
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release dates
  • 13 May 1998 (1998-05-13) (Cannes)
  • 16 April 1999 (1999-04-16) (United States)
  • 12 August 1999 (1999-08-12) (Germany)
Running time
102 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Germany
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million[1]
Box office$1.9 million[1]

Goodbye Lover is a 1998 neo-noir comedy film about a murder plot surrounding an alcoholic advertising agency worker and his adulterous wife. The film was directed by Roland Joffé, and stars Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Don Johnson, Ellen DeGeneres and Mary-Louise Parker. The original script was written by Ron Peer; subsequent drafts were written by Robert Pucci, then Buck Henry.

The film premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival,[2] before being released theatrically in April 1999. Following its premiere, reshoots were done in Beverly Hills, and the climax was changed. This would be the last Regency Enterprises film to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures (before Regency signed a distribution deal with 20th Century Fox) until the 2006 film The Fountain.

  1. ^ a b "Goodbye Lover". Boxofficemojo.com.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Goodbye Lover". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-04.