Love Liza

Love Liza
Movie poster
Directed byTodd Louiso
Written byGordy Hoffman
Produced byRuth Charny
Chris Hanley
Corky O'Hara
Jeffrey Roda
Fernando Sulichin
StarringPhilip Seymour Hoffman
Kathy Bates
CinematographyLisa Rinzler
Edited byAnn Stein
Music byJim O'Rourke
Production
companies
Wild Bunch
StudioCanal
Starhaus Filmproduktion
Distributed bySony Pictures Classics
Release dates
  • January 14, 2002 (2002-01-14)
(Sundance)
  • December 30, 2002 (2002-12-30)
(limited)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesFrance
Germany
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1 million[1][2]

Love Liza is a 2002 American tragicomedic[3] drama film directed by Todd Louiso and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Jack Kehler, Wayne Duvall, Sarah Koskoff and Stephen Tobolowsky. The film is written by Gordy Hoffman, a playwright and the elder brother of Philip. Love Liza debuted at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.

  1. ^ "Love Liza". The Numbers. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  2. ^ Propes, Richard. ""Love Liza" Review". The Independent Critic. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  3. ^ Meyer, Carla (January 26, 2003). "Tale by two siblings / Hoffman brothers team up in 'Love Liza'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved February 13, 2019. Gordy says -- but in the meantime, there's "Love Liza," a tragicomedy) written by Gordy and starring his brother.