ADDICTED TO LOVE
A funny revenge romance that leaves love’s Author out.
Should You Watch It?
Addicted to Love has a workable comic premise and numerous romantic twists and turns. It is funny in places, but its central characters are so consumed by spying and revenge that they become difficult to sympathize with.
The deeper problem is the film’s understanding of love. Maggie and Anton describe human love as the answer to an inner emptiness, but the story almost entirely leaves out the One who can truly fill that void. The movie offers Hollywood-style romance without acknowledging Jesus Christ, the Author of love.
Because the film is also rated R and contains implied and briefly depicted fornication, it is not a family movie. For adults who are curious, watch it at home only with clear discernment about its worldview and content.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESSam, a sheltered astrophysics graduate student, travels to New York after discovering that his former girlfriend, Linda, has taken a new lover. He sets up a telescope across from her apartment to spy on them.
There he meets Maggie, the former girlfriend of Linda’s new boyfriend. Maggie is spying on him, too. The two join forces to sabotage the new couple’s relationship, while their own partnership begins to change.
Is It Any Good?
Two stars means this is a flawed romantic comedy with some genuine laughs but little lasting substance. The film’s romantic twists and turns provide entertainment, and its revenge schemes create comic situations.
Still, the story feels empty. Sam’s attempts to spy on his former girlfriend become futile, while the characters’ fixation on past relationships leads them into unhealthy behavior. The romance never fully overcomes the film’s lack of sympathy and emotional depth.
The Worldview
The film presents romantic love as the answer to a spiritual craving. Maggie says people carry an internal emptiness until they find love to fill the void, and Anton expresses essentially the same belief. That idea gives human romance a role that belongs to God.
The film also treats revenge as a response to lost love. Maggie and Sam choose to spy on and sabotage their former partners rather than seek strength to move forward. One character briefly calls on God after being barred from his own restaurant, but the prayer is soon forgotten.
The work’s portrayal of Maggie as grim and bent on revenge, alongside Sam as an air-headed academic genius lost in futile spying, makes this view of love feel especially hollow. The film finds romance, but it does not acknowledge Jesus Christ or the God who gives love its true source and meaning.
Scripture offers a different answer: “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). God, not another human being, fills the deepest void within us.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Pagan & Romantic worldview which asserts that a human lover fulfills a soul’s spiritual craving; 8 obscenities; man beats man, man shoves man into a grate & woman beats man; implied & depicted fornication; obscured lower male nudity; drinking; and, revenge
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
The film treats another person as the answer to inner emptiness. What does Scripture say God provides that no human relationship can provide?
Psalm 42:1–2 · 1 John 4:10Sam and Maggie respond to heartbreak with spying and revenge. What does the Bible teach about repaying wrong and overcoming evil?
Romans 12:19–21When love is lost, where can a person find strength to continue? How might prayer change the way we respond to grief?
Psalm 34:18 · Philippians 4:6–7The Final Word
This is a funny but ultimately empty romantic comedy, built around unhealthy fixation, revenge, and a view of love that leaves God almost entirely out. Because of its R-rated content and thin worldview, adults who watch should do so at home and with discernment. Our answer is WAIT FOR HOME — ADULTS ONLY. For a different kind of family movie night, see.
