I Love Your Work is an American psychological thriller film completed in 2003 and released theatrically in 2005. The film was directed by Adam Goldberg and written by Goldberg and Adrian Butchart. An indictment of celebrity culture, it was not a commercial success. The cast includes Giovanni Ribisi, Christina Ricci, and Vince Vaughn. The movie premiered on September 5, 2003 at the Toronto Film Festival.
The DVD was distributed by THINKFilm on March 28, 2006.
Gray Evans, a movie star, is losing his grip on reality, unable to adjust to his own celebrity, and addicted to romantic fantasies about idealistic love and his once simple life. With his celebrity marriage to the beautiful actress Mia already strained by jealousy and frustration after only a year together, Gray is looking for escape. An avid photographer, his voyeuristic nature leads him to a local video store, where an encounter with the video clerk's wife Jane leads to a dangerous obsession over what he imagines to be an ideal love. Gray falls further over the edge, as his conceptions of love and reality are further blurred by the similarities between Jane and his ex-girlfriend Shana to the point where obsession becomes delusion. Gray's life is further complicated by the realities of his own celebrity, an obsessive fan and the need for him to create his public persona as a successful man with a successful marriage. Profession, obsession, and delusion twist together beyond repair when Gray pulls the video clerk, an ambitious screenwriter, into his world by offering to make a movie with him. Their relationship succeeds in bringing him closer to Jane but takes away any last hold on reality, as his fantasy leads to destruction. The layered narrative swings around on itself, taking us on a journey through love, madness and paranoia all the while holding on to a darkly comic view of its own absurd world of crazy Russian bodyguards, loyal assistants, playboy producers and true celebrity.
Workers in their worn-out coats
The girls from Ghent
So quiet and content
This is what we came here for :
A friendly word and a cigarette
Cos' it's true what they say
The world just turns around
We'll be happy again
These are the days
We can truly find ourselves
Nothing fancy
Nothing much
The facts of life
We all come across
When your legs have walked enough
We can ride the shabby city bus
Cos' it's true what they say
The world just turns around
We'll be happy again
These are the moments
We just can't live without
These are the moments
We just can't live without
Though it's sad
No one's dead just yet (x2)
And it's true what they say
The world just turns around
We'll be happy again
These are the days
We can truly find ourselves
Sunday morning radio
The sun outside nowhere to be seen
Skinny girls and bony boys
Made up the rules
When we came living here
And it's true what they say
The world just turns around
We'll be happy again
These are the moments
We just can't live without
These are the moments
We just can't live without
Though it's sad
No one's dead just yet (x16)