Lunatics: A Love Story

{{Infobox film

| name = Lunatics: A Love Story

| image = Lunatics_Poster.jpg

| caption = VHS Artwork

| director = Josh Becker

| producer = Sam Raimi
Bruce Campbell
Robert Tapert

| writer = Josh Becker

| starring = Ted Raimi
Deborah Foreman
Bruce Campbell
George Aguilar
Brian McCree

| distributor = Renaissance Pictures
SVS/Triumph Home Video

| released = {{Film date|1991|02}}

| runtime = 87 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| music = Joseph LoDuca

| editing = Kaye Davis

| cinematography = Jeffrey Dougherty

| budget = <$500,000{{cite magazine |last=Uram|first=Sue|date=September 1996 |title= Lunatics: A Love Story|url=https://archive.org/details/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2022%20No%204%20%28Feb%201992%29/page/n39/mode/1up?view=theater|url-status= |magazine=Cinefantastique|location= |publisher= Fourth Castle Micromedia|access-date=February 19, 2023}}

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Lunatics: A Love Story is a 1991 comedy romance film with neo-noir (especially psycho-noir) connections written and directed by Josh Becker, starring Ted Raimi, Deborah Foreman and Bruce Campbell. The film tells the story of a young, paranoid aspiring poet who, after an accidental phone conversation with a seemingly sweet woman, is forced to overcome his worries in order to win her heart. The film’s music was composed by Joseph LoDuca, and was edited by Kaye Davis.

Plot

In a rough area in Los Angeles, an aspiring poet has spent six months without leaving his apartment because of his obsessive delusions concerning cruel doctors, rappers, and spiders. Meanwhile, a woman who appears to curse things by wanting to help is dumped by her boyfriend and finds herself flat broke on the streets of LA. Soon she runs into a local gang. Due to a telephone glitch, our hero calls her at a phone booth trying to dial a "talk line" and invites her to his place. There they are forced to aid each other in overcoming their particular problems.