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* DoggedNiceGuy: Devo, to Rosalie.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Inspired by the actual case of the Toto's, a Pennsylvanian couple where, in 1984, the husband was poisoned and shot by his wife. He spent four days in bed before being discovered. They later reconciled and did the TV interview circuit: him from the studio and her from prison.

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Joey Boca (Reeves) lives with his wife Rosalie (Ullman) in Tacoma, Washington. They earn a modest living running a pizzeria, with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorce is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...

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Joey Boca (Reeves) (Kline) lives with his wife Rosalie (Ullman) in Tacoma, Washington. They earn a modest living running a pizzeria, with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorce is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...

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''I Love You to Death'' is a BlackComedy from 1990 starring Creator/KevinKline and Creator/TraceyUllman as Joey and Rosalie Boca, an Italian-American and Yugoslavian-American married couple. They earn a modest living running a pizzeria with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorce is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...

HilarityEnsues when Joey proves harder to kill than anticipated, while remaining blissfully unaware that anyone is trying to kill him. Rosalie is aided in her attempts by her tough-as-nails mother Nadja (Joan Plowright), devoted busboy with a crush Devo (River Phoenix), and two drug-addicts turned impromptu hitmen Harlan and Marlon (William Hurt and Keanu Reeves).

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''I Love You to Death'' is a 1990 American BlackComedy from 1990 film directed by Creator/LawrenceKasdan, starring Creator/KevinKline Creator/KevinKline, Creator/TraceyUllman, Creator/RiverPhoenix, Joan Plowright, Creator/WilliamHurt, and Creator/TraceyUllman as Creator/KeanuReeves.

Joey and Boca (Reeves) lives with his wife Rosalie Boca, an Italian-American and Yugoslavian-American married couple. (Ullman) in Tacoma, Washington. They earn a modest living running a pizzeria pizzeria, with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorce is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...

HilarityEnsues when Joey proves harder to kill than anticipated, while remaining blissfully unaware that anyone is trying to kill him. Rosalie is aided in her attempts by her tough-as-nails Yugoslavian mother Nadja (Joan Plowright), (Plowright), devoted busboy with a crush Devo (River Phoenix), (Phoenix), and two drug-addicts turned impromptu drug addicts-turned-impromptu hitmen Harlan (Hurt) and Marlon (William Hurt and Keanu Reeves).
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''I Love You to Death'' is a BlackComedy from 1990 starring Creator/KevinKline and Tracey Ullman as Joey and Rosalie Boca, an Italian-American and Yugoslavian-American married couple. They earn a modest living running a pizzeria with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorce is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...

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''I Love You to Death'' is a BlackComedy from 1990 starring Creator/KevinKline and Tracey Ullman Creator/TraceyUllman as Joey and Rosalie Boca, an Italian-American and Yugoslavian-American married couple. They earn a modest living running a pizzeria with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorce is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...

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* ForeignLanguageTirade: Joey confesses to using one against his mother-in-law, but justifies it since it was in Italian and she couldn't understand it, so it's technically not a sin. The priest considers for a moment and declares "Oh no, it counts."
** Happens again when the mother-in-law in question starts chewing him out in Serbo-Croatian, while being chewed out in Italian, with Rosalie (the only one who can understand both but is the target of neither) sits in the middle and tries to get them both to stop in English.

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Joey confesses to using one against his mother-in-law, but justifies it since it was in Italian and she couldn't understand it, so it's technically not a sin. The priest considers for a moment and declares "Oh no, it counts."
** Happens again when the mother-in-law in question starts chewing him out in Serbo-Croatian, while being chewed out in Italian, with Rosalie (the only one who can understand both but is the target of neither) sits in the middle and tries to get them both to stop in English.
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* MadeOfIron: Joey is beaten, poisoned, and shot, but is still up for a game of Monopoly. In fact, shooting him in the head only wakes him up from his poisoning. When asked how he feels, he only claims to have a bit of a headache due to a virus.

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* MadeOfIron: Joey is beaten, poisoned, and shot, but is still up for a game of Monopoly. In fact, shooting him in the head only wakes him up from his poisoning.poisoning (and it turns out being fed two bottles of sleeping pills slows his bleeding down enough that he doesn't bleed out from the two gunshot wounds). When asked how he feels, he only claims to have a bit of a headache due to a virus.
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* TooDumbToLive: Marlon. Harlan is no genius, but his cousin has to be constantly reminded who Joey is and why they're there.
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''I Love You to Death'' is a BlackComedy from 1990 starring Creator/KevinKline and Tracey Ullman as Joey and Rosalie Boca, an Italian-American and Polish-American married couple. They earn a modest living running a pizzeria with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorce is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...

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''I Love You to Death'' is a BlackComedy from 1990 starring Creator/KevinKline and Tracey Ullman as Joey and Rosalie Boca, an Italian-American and Polish-American Yugoslavian-American married couple. They earn a modest living running a pizzeria with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorce is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...



** Happens again when the mother-in-law in question starts chewing him out in Polish, while being chewed out in Italian, with Rosalie (the only one who can understand both but is the target of neither) sits in the middle and tries to get them both to stop in English.

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** Happens again when the mother-in-law in question starts chewing him out in Polish, Serbo-Croatian, while being chewed out in Italian, with Rosalie (the only one who can understand both but is the target of neither) sits in the middle and tries to get them both to stop in English.
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->''Joey Boca: I cheated on my wife.''\\
''Priest: You committed adultery?''\\
''Joey Boca: Yes.''\\
''Priest: How many times?''\\
''Joey Boca: Uh... 5 times the last 2 weeks... wait, no, that's wrong... it was uh... it was uh, 4 times this week, uh... with 3 women, and uh... 3 times last week with 2 other women... wow... plus one of the women from this week was the same as last week... or maybe 2 of the women was the same... so uh... I guess that uh... makes uh... what, uh... I dunno, 7 times... I mean it was more than uh... 7 times, father, it was, it was more like uh... 10 or 12 times but, you know, it was like on uh... 7 different occasions uh... only with 5 different women uh... uh... but uh... some of the women eh... more than once uh... some of them, quite a few times uh... in fact uh... it's hard to say father, I, I didn't exactly keep count but uh... uh, let let's say a dozen times in the last 2 weeks, uh... give or take a few times...''

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->''Joey Boca: ->'''Joey Boca:''' I cheated on my wife.''\\
''Priest:
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'''Priest:'''
You committed adultery?''\\
''Joey Boca:
adultery?\\
'''Joey Boca:'''
Yes.''\\
''Priest:
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'''Priest:'''
How many times?''\\
''Joey Boca:
times?\\
'''Joey Boca:'''
Uh... 5 Five times the last 2 two weeks... wait, no, that's wrong... it was uh... it was uh, 4 four times this week, uh... with 3 three women, and and, uh... 3 three times last week with 2 two other women... wow... plus one of the women from this week was the same as last week... or maybe 2 two of the women was the same... so so, uh... I guess that that, uh... makes makes, uh... what, uh... I dunno, 7 seven times... I mean it was more than uh... 7 seven times, father, Father, it was, it was more like like, uh... 10 ten or 12 twelve times but, you know, it was like on on, uh... 7 seven different occasions occasions, uh... only with 5 five different women women, uh... uh... but but, uh... some of the women eh... more than once uh... some of them, quite a few times uh... in fact uh... it's hard to say father, I, say, Father, I... I didn't exactly keep count but count, but, uh... uh, let let's say a dozen times in the last 2 two weeks, uh... give or take a few times...''
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* TheCasanova: As seen above, Joey ReallyGetsAround

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* TheCasanova: As seen above, Joey ReallyGetsAroundReallyGetsAround.



** Happens again when the mother-in-law- in question starts chewing him out in Polish, while being chewed out in Italian, with Rosalie (the only one who can understand both but is the target of neither) sits in the middle and tries to get them both to stop in English.

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** Happens again when the mother-in-law- mother-in-law in question starts chewing him out in Polish, while being chewed out in Italian, with Rosalie (the only one who can understand both but is the target of neither) sits in the middle and tries to get them both to stop in English.
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''I Love You to Death'' is a BlackComedy from 1990 starring Creator/KevinKline and Tracey Ullman as Joey and Rosalie Boca, and Italian-American and Polish-American married couple. They earn a modest living running a pizzaria with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorse is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...

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''I Love You to Death'' is a BlackComedy from 1990 starring Creator/KevinKline and Tracey Ullman as Joey and Rosalie Boca, and an Italian-American and Polish-American married couple. They earn a modest living running a pizzaria pizzeria with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorse divorce is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...



* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Inspired by the actual case of the Toto's, a Pennsylvanian couple where, in 1984, the husband was poisoned and shot by his wife. He spent four days in bed before being discovered. They later reconsciled and did the TV interview circuit: him from the studio and her from prison.

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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Inspired by the actual case of the Toto's, a Pennsylvanian couple where, in 1984, the husband was poisoned and shot by his wife. He spent four days in bed before being discovered. They later reconsciled reconciled and did the TV interview circuit: him from the studio and her from prison.
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''I Love You to Death'' is a BlackComedy from 1990 starring Kevin Kline and Tracey Ulman as Joey and Rosalie Boca, and Italian-American and Polish-American married couple. They earn a modest living running a pizzaria with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorse is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...

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''I Love You to Death'' is a BlackComedy from 1990 starring Kevin Kline Creator/KevinKline and Tracey Ulman Ullman as Joey and Rosalie Boca, and Italian-American and Polish-American married couple. They earn a modest living running a pizzaria with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorse is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...
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* WomanScorned: Rosalie was a perfectly nice and normal person until she found out her husband was banging half the neighborhood.

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* TheCasanova: As seen above, Joey ReallyGetsAround
* DirtyCommunists: Invoked by Harlan and Marlon. They may be performing murder for hire, but they're getting paid, which makes them better than Commies.




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** Happens again when the mother-in-law- in question starts chewing him out in Polish, while being chewed out in Italian, with Rosalie (the only one who can understand both but is the target of neither) sits in the middle and tries to get them both to stop in English.
* MadeOfIron: Joey is beaten, poisoned, and shot, but is still up for a game of Monopoly. In fact, shooting him in the head only wakes him up from his poisoning. When asked how he feels, he only claims to have a bit of a headache due to a virus.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Inspired by the actual case of the Toto's, a Pennsylvanian couple where, in 1984, the husband was poisoned and shot by his wife. He spent four days in bed before being discovered. They later reconsciled and did the TV interview circuit: him from the studio and her from prison.
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->''Joey Boca: I cheated on my wife.''\\
''Priest: You committed adultery?''\\
''Joey Boca: Yes.''\\
''Priest: How many times?''\\
''Joey Boca: Uh... 5 times the last 2 weeks... wait, no, that's wrong... it was uh... it was uh, 4 times this week, uh... with 3 women, and uh... 3 times last week with 2 other women... wow... plus one of the women from this week was the same as last week... or maybe 2 of the women was the same... so uh... I guess that uh... makes uh... what, uh... I dunno, 7 times... I mean it was more than uh... 7 times, father, it was, it was more like uh... 10 or 12 times but, you know, it was like on uh... 7 different occasions uh... only with 5 different women uh... uh... but uh... some of the women eh... more than once uh... some of them, quite a few times uh... in fact uh... it's hard to say father, I, I didn't exactly keep count but uh... uh, let let's say a dozen times in the last 2 weeks, uh... give or take a few times...''

''I Love You to Death'' is a BlackComedy from 1990 starring Kevin Kline and Tracey Ulman as Joey and Rosalie Boca, and Italian-American and Polish-American married couple. They earn a modest living running a pizzaria with Joey making a few bucks on the side as a handyman. Unfortunately, money's not the only thing Joey is getting on the side. Rosalie finds out that he's been cheating on her with several of his clients. Devastated, she vows to get back at him. As a devout Catholic, divorse is out of the question. Murder, on the other hand ...

HilarityEnsues when Joey proves harder to kill than anticipated, while remaining blissfully unaware that anyone is trying to kill him. Rosalie is aided in her attempts by her tough-as-nails mother Nadja (Joan Plowright), devoted busboy with a crush Devo (River Phoenix), and two drug-addicts turned impromptu hitmen Harlan and Marlon (William Hurt and Keanu Reeves).

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* ForeignLanguageTirade: Joey confesses to using one against his mother-in-law, but justifies it since it was in Italian and she couldn't understand it, so it's technically not a sin. The priest considers for a moment and declares "Oh no, it counts."

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-->'''''Hey giiirrrrrllllsss ... Mono-polyyyyyy...'''''

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