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When a Man Loves a Woman

Year:

1994

Duration:

126 min

Genres:

Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.5

Director:

Luis Mandoki

Awards:

4 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1994-05-13

Filming Locations: 1516 Masonic Ave, San Francisco, California, USA

Earnings

Gross: $50,021,959 (USA)£1,634,249 (UK)

Cast

Actor

Character

Tina Majorino

When a Man Loves a Woman

Susanna Thompson

Janette Andrade

Andy Garcia

Michael Green

Meg Ryan

Alice Green

Ellen Burstyn

Emily

Mae Whitman

Casey Green

Lauren Tom

Amy

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Gary

Eugene Roche

Walter

Gail Strickland

Pam

Steven Brill

Madras Tie Guy

Erinn Canavan

Shannon

LaTanya Richardson

Dr. Gina Mendez (as Latanya Richardson)

Bari K. Willerford

Malcolm

James Jude Courtney

Earl

Jacques De Groot

Guy in the Back (as Jacques de Groot)

Anne Ohliger

Jess - 4 Yrs. Old

Tony Montero

Bartender

Cynthia Mace

De-tox Nurse

Jennie Yee

William Frankfather

Al-Anon Leader

Ellen Geer

Woman at Al-Anon

Angelina Fiordellisi

Joanna

Elizabeth Lang

AA Woman (as Liz Lang)

Syd Field

Patient #1

Peer Ebbighausen

Patient #2

Ronald Bass

AA Man #1

Joe Drago

AA Man #2

Andrew Magarian

AA Man #3

Amy Treese

AA Woman #2

Brandis Kemp

AA Woman #3

Judith Friend

AA Woman #4

Deana Kobrynski

AA Woman #5

Rico E. Anderson

Barfly (uncredited)

Lena Banks

Nurse (uncredited)

Richard Bradford

Angry Man Watching TV (uncredited)

Al Franken

Co-Pilot (uncredited)

Holly Lewis

AA Person (uncredited)

Craig Richards

Patient #3 (uncredited)

Reed Rudy

Angry guy (uncredited)

Joseph Quinn Simpkins

Barfly (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

When Meg Ryan first hits the booze in the opening scenes, she does so in San Francisco's famous Buena Vista Café in Fisherman's Wharf. It was here that America's first Irish Coffee was first created in 1952.

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The movie was based on ten pages of notes written by Orson Welles.

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Tom Hanks and Debra Winger were originally cast as Michael and Alice Green.

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Goofs

When Michael approaches Amy and her family in the Asian restaurant, the caption says they are speaking Chinese. They are actually speaking Vietnamese.

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It is a myth that vodka is not detectable on the breath. If Alice were indeed drinking a quart a day her husband, and everyone near her, would have smelled it.

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When Michael takes the bottles out to the trash, a cameraman can be seen slinking past the open doorway of the house.

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Quotes

Alice Green: It's horrifying how much you can hate yourself for being low and weak and he couldn't save me from that. So I turned it on him; I tried to empty it onto him. But there was always more, you know. When he tried to help I told him that he made me feel small and worthless. But nobody makes us feel that, we do that for ourselves. I shut him out because I knew if he ever really saw who I was inside, that he wouldn't love me. And we're separated now, he's moved away, and it was so hard not to beg him to stay. And I don't know if I'm going to get a second chance but I have to believe. That I deserve one. Because we all do.

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Michael Green: Come on, let's be real. You're clean. You stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills. And I'll take the heat. 'Cause I got some needs of my own. When I touch my wife, I like it better if her skin doesn't crawl.

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Alice Green: I think I could love you again if you could, for once, say 'I don't know.'

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