Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) is an over-confident womanizing veteran reporter on the Chicago Chronicle with a new book out. He is told to cover a train crash and is scooped by the young cub reporter Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) from the rival Chicago Globe. Their professional rivalry is put on hold when a conspiracy puts them in danger and the bad guys start shooting. Their combative relationship leads them to fall in love.The chemistry is bad and that's before I read about how Nolte and Roberts didn't get along. I actually like Julia saying that he has no chance. This would be good as a non-rom-com. The age difference is a big part of it. There is a definite ick factor involved. Second, I don't get the comedy part of rom-com. The movie has little kids getting on the train and then the train crashes. Any comedy is dead right off the bat with the possible dead kids. This could be a thrilling investigation but the movie keeps jamming the rom-com at the audience. The constant light comedic tone is horribly distracting. The two hour running time is also 30 minutes too long.

I've seen I Love Trouble several times and it never gets old. It is from the early 90s but is a story that is still entertaining today. Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts play competing reporters at different newspapers in Chicago. When a major story breaks, they both compete to scoop each other, but ultimately decide to team up when it becomes clear that their lives are endangered. Julia Roberts shines in one of her first leading roles, showing us what got her to be known as America's sweetheart. Nick Nolte is also fantastic. He is a very good actor who doesn't get many good roles anymore, because of his past. It's good to see him playing a likable character instead of making a cameo as a psychotic drunk. I Love Trouble, and I love this movie. It's a great story with an excellent cast and thoroughly entertaining.

Sabrina Peterson is a rising young journalist with a Chicago newspaper. Peter Brackett is a veteran columnist for a rival paper. After they are assigned by their respective editors to cover a major train accident they stumble upon a dangerous conspiracy (involving wrongdoing by a big chemical company). This could have been the plot of a standard thriller, something like Julia Roberts' previous film, "The Pelican Brief", in which a rising young lawyer teams up with a journalist to expose a dangerous conspiracy involving wrongdoing by a big oil company. "I Love Trouble," however, is not a standard thriller, but rather a light-hearted romantic comedy with thriller elements. A strong influence seems to have been the "screwball" comedies of the thirties and forties; one can imagine the role of Sabrina being taken by Katharine Hepburn with Cary Grant or Spencer Tracy as Peter.A common feature of these films is an element of friction between the male and female leads; they quarrel throughout but nevertheless end up falling in love. Perhaps the best modern example of a screwball comedy is the Coen brothers' "Intolerable Cruelty" in which George Clooney plays a cynical, manipulative divorce lawyer and Catherine Zeta Jones plays the mercenary, gold-digging ex-wife of one of his clients. In "I Love Trouble" the element of friction is provided by the rivalry between the two newspapers, which turns into rivalry between the two journalists. Peter initially takes a patronising attitude to Sabrina, whom he sees as raw and inexperienced, but she starts to win his respect when she scoops him over the train crash story. When they uncover the conspiracy they are forced to work together in order to survive, but nevertheless still continually try to outwit one another to get scoops for their papers.Since 1994 Roberts has become one of Hollywood's most successful romantic comedy actresses, but this was only her second film in the genre. The first, of course, was "Pretty Woman", the film which first made her a major star, and like the earlier film, "I Love Trouble" is heavily dependent on Roberts. She not only looks lovely but also brings her brand of star quality, the ability to seize hold of a film and to make it her own personal property. Nick Nolte is not an actor whom I would necessarily have associated with romantic comedy, but here as Peter he makes a likable hero, even if at 53 (twice Roberts' age) he is perhaps rather too old for the part. Roberts and Nolte bring out the contrast between their two characters; she bright and enthusiastic, he cynical, hard-bitten and more laid back."I Love Trouble" is a film which has largely been overlooked; even Roberts' greatest admirers would rarely rank it among her greatest achievements, and its current rating on this board is only 4.9. This is an attitude which I find difficult to understand. The film is not perhaps as complex as "Pretty Woman" or "Notting Hill", or as funny as "America's Sweethearts", but I would certainly prefer it to something like the over-formulaic and predictable "Runaway Bride". Like most rom-coms it is a lightweight film, but it is an amusing and entertaining one which moves along at a good pace. 6/10

I HAVE SEEN THIS MOVIE,and I have to tell you the plot is really like something out of the 1970's.Although there is one good scene in it that I like.It is the scene were Julia Roberts character is getting out of the water at a lake dripping wet and naked,she is confronted by an entire group of boy scouts. Nick Nolty's character is the only thing standing between her and the boys about 10 to 14 years old.Julia Roberts begs him with everything inside her, not for him to move,he ask the boys,"ANYBODY GOT A CAMERA",then he grabs a very short towel she's managed to get hold of that cant even cover her,and snatches it off of her body stripping leaving her completely wet and naked, at the same time he runs away from her leaving her in absolute and complete shock!!! She is so shocked that if you slow this part down and look,she only tries to cover her boobs leaving her totally and completely wet and naked,and her privates and belly totally exposed to the boys who have her surrounded,allowing them to take pictures of her instantly!!She cant do anything from being in shock,but to stand there, trying to cover her boobs, and gasping loudly.