Love Me If You Dare
2003 · Movie · R · 93 min · ★ 7.2 · 45% critics
As adults, two best friends carry on an unusual childhood game that pushes them to one-up each other with daring, outrageous stunts. The competition helps them cope, even as it hints at deeper feelings between them that neither fully confronts.
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Details
- Original title
- Jeux d'enfants
- Years
- 2003
- Release date
- 2003-09-17
- Language
- French
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Critic score
- 45/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (1,879 votes)
About
If you want a romantic drama that mixes playful bets, emotional intensity, and unpredictable twists, Love Me If You Dare may hit; Not for you if you need a straightforward, easily relatable love story like Love Actually or prefer calmer, lighter romances such as Flipped.
Pros: daring romance; memorable emotion; surprising tone | Cons: hard to relate; uneven pacing; divisive ending
Themes
- test of courage
- belgium
- crush
Cast & crew
Guillaume Canet
as Julien Janvier
Marion Cotillard
as Sophie Kowalsky
Thibault Verhaeghe
as 8-year-old Julien
Joséphine Lebas-Joly
as 8-year-old-Sophie
Emmanuelle Grönvold
as Julien's Mother
Gérard Watkins
as Julien's Father
Julia Faure
as Sophie's Sister
Gilles Lellouche
as Sergei Nimov Nimovitch
Élodie Navarre
as Aurélie Miller
Frédéric Geerts
as Igor
Directed by Yann Samuell