The Look of Love
The movie depicts the life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
18 December 1975, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
6 March 1981, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
6 November 1982, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
8 September 1979, London, England, UK
17 December 1960, London, England, UK
20 February 1977, Helsinki, Finland
14 October 1965, Middleton, Manchester, England, UK
August 02, 2013
Steve Coogan's fourth collaboration with director Michael Winterbottom is a funny, visually inventive take on Britain's Hugh Hefner.July 18, 2013
Groovy period soundtrack aside, "The Look of Love" has almost nothing to say of any interest, importance or humor.July 05, 2013
Coogan turns in a fine dramatic performance in a role that calls for as much actual acting as wisecracking.July 26, 2013
Coogan is adept at playing the cad, but Winterbottom gives him little else to do.November 04, 2013
Coogan's own impersonation is precise, but the melancholy that finally engulfs Raymond is beyond him.August 01, 2013
Frankly, the guy just isn't very interesting.July 12, 2013
Double-billing comic and tragic tones, the biopic "The Look of Love" follows a father and a daughter over three decades in London's swinging Soho.August 10, 2013
The Look of Love comes off as an extremely standard biopic that seems to have emerged directly from a template for such films...July 23, 2013
It's a case of "fourth time unlucky" for frequent collaborators Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan. Well, "uninspired" might be more accurate.July 08, 2013
A puzzlingly misconceived biopic: a tasteful, subdued movie about a man who was as tasteless and unsubdued as they come.July 25, 2013
Coogan never comes close to disappearing into the character, leaving the whole movie teetering uneasily between campy naughtiness and empathetic character study.July 11, 2013
Director Michael Winterbottom and screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh provide the essential outline of Raymond's story, but they're a little too preoccupied with its glitzy aspects.