What Love Is

For the Marty Balin single, see Marty Balin. For the article about a similarly titled song, see What Is Love (Haddaway song).

What Love Is is a 2007 romantic comedy film, written and directed by Mars Callahan and starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Matthew Lillard, Sean Astin, Anne Heche, and Gina Gershon.

What Love Is
Release poster
Directed by	Mars Callahan
Written by	Mars Callahan
Produced by	George Bours John Hermansen Mars Callahan
Starring	Cuba Gooding Jr. Matthew Lillard Sean Astin Anne Heche Gina Gershon
Cinematography	David Stump
Edited by	Andrew Dickler Joe Plenys
Music by	Erik Godal
Distributed by	Big Sky Motion Pictures
Release date	March 23, 2007 (2007-03-23)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$8.5 million

Premise

The film is shot one evening, mostly in a man's apartment (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) on the Valentine's Day he intends to propose to his girlfriend. Before he can pop the question, he arrives home to discover she has mostly moved out. Then, several childhood friends and later several women arrive for a planned Valentine's party, all of which give their takes on relationships, love and interacting.

Cast

• Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Tom
• Matthew Lillard as Sal
• Sean Astin as George
• Mars Callahan as Ken
• Andrew Daly as Wayne
• Gina Gershon as Rachel
• Anne Heche as Laura
• Tamala Jones as Katherine
• Shiri Appleby as Debbie
• Jud Tylor as Amy
• T.C. Carson as Kwame
• Gillian Shure as Karen
• Victoria Pratt as Sara
• Steve Makhanian as Bogie, The Clerk

Reception

Box office

The film made roughly $19,000 at 42 theaters during its theatrical run.^[1]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 15% of 13 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.3/10.^[2] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 14 out of 100, based on eight critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".^[3]

Home media

The film was released on DVD on April 1, 2008.^[4]