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{{short description|2003 film by Peyton Reed}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Down with Love
| image          = Down with Love.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Peyton Reed]]
| screenplay     = {{Plainlist|
* Eve Ahlert
* Dennis Drake
}}
| producer       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Dan Jinks]]
* [[Bruce Cohen]]
}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Renée Zellweger]]
* [[Ewan McGregor]]
* [[David Hyde Pierce]]
* [[Sarah Paulson]]
* [[Tony Randall]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Jeff Cronenweth]]
| editing        = Larry Bock
| music          = [[Marc Shaiman]]
| studio         = {{plainlist|
* [[Fox 2000 Pictures]]<ref name=bfi>{{cite web |title=Down with Love (2003) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b87f55a36 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117032632/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b87f55a36}}</ref>
* [[Regency Enterprises]]<ref name=bfi/>
* Mediastream III<ref name=bfi/>
* Jinks/Cohen Company<ref name=bfi/>
}}
| distributor    = [[20th Century Fox]]
| released       = {{Film date|2003|5|9|New York City|2003|5|16|United States|2003|12|25|Germany}}
| runtime        = 102 minutes
| country        = {{plainlist|
* United States<ref name=bfi/>
* Germany<ref name=bfi/>
}}
| language       = English
| budget         = $35 million<ref name="nyt-summer">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/movies/summer-movies-looking-for-the-look-of-love.html|title=SUMMER MOVIES; Looking For the Look Of 'Love'|last=Lyman|first=Rick|date=May 11, 2003|access-date=May 7, 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|archive-date=May 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507165140/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/movies/summer-movies-looking-for-the-look-of-love.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
| gross          = $39.5 million<ref name="Mojo">{{cite web |title=Down with Love |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=downwithlove.htm |access-date=October 3, 2010 |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607123644/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=downwithlove.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}

'''''Down with Love''''' is a 2003 [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Peyton Reed]]. It stars [[Renée Zellweger]] and [[Ewan McGregor]] and is a [[pastiche]] of the early-1960s American "no-sex sex comedies",<ref name="TimeMay19">{{cite magazine |last=Corliss |first=Richard |title=That Old Feeling, Doris Day, Rock All Night |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=May 19, 2003 |url=http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,453041,00.html |authorlink=Richard Corliss |access-date=October 29, 2017 |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715051338/http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,453041,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> such as ''[[Pillow Talk (film)|Pillow Talk]]'' and ''[[Lover Come Back (1961 film)|Lover Come Back]]'' (both starring [[Rock Hudson]], [[Doris Day]], and [[Tony Randall]]) and the "myriad spawn"<ref name="TimeMay11">{{cite magazine |last=Corliss |first=Richard |title=I Hear America Smirking |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=May 11, 2003 |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,450980,00.html |authorlink=Richard Corliss |access-date=October 29, 2017 |archive-date=April 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416114423/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,450980,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> of derivative films that followed; ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' film critic [[Richard Corliss]] wrote that ''Down with Love'' "is so clogged with specific references to a half-dozen Rock-and-Doris-type comedies that it serves as definitive distillation of the genre."<ref name="TimeMay19"/> Randall himself plays a small role in ''Down with Love'', "bestowing his sly, patriarchal blessing"<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news |last=Scott |first=A. O. |authorlink=A. O. Scott |date=May 9, 2003 |title=Film Review; Trading Barbs, Like Doris And Rock |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9506E3D6163FF93AA35756C0A9659C8B63%3F&pagewanted=all |access-date=December 28, 2017 |archive-date=October 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029173445/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9506E3D6163FF93AA35756C0A9659C8B63%3F&pagewanted=all |url-status=live }}</ref> on the film, which also stars [[David Hyde Pierce]] (in the neurotic best friend role often played by Randall or [[Gig Young]]), [[Sarah Paulson]], [[Rachel Dratch]], [[Jeri Ryan]], and [[Jack Plotnick]], who spoofs the kind of role Chet Stratton played in ''Lover Come Back''.

Typical of the genre, the film tells the story of a woman who advocates female independence in combat with a [[lothario]]; the plot reflects the attitudes and behaviour of the early pre-[[sexual revolution]] 1960s but has an [[anachronism|anachronistic]] conclusion driven by more modern, [[post-feminism|post-feminist]] ideas and attitudes. Though the film received a mixed critical response at the time of release and underperformed at the box office, it has since undergone a critical reappraisal and grown a [[cult following]] for its subversion of rom-com conventions.<ref name="Loayza" />