Love Liza is a 2002 tragicomedy film directed by Todd Louiso and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Jack Kehler, Wayne Duvall, Sarah Koskoff and Stephen Tobolowsky. The film inspired the song "Benzin" by Rammstein. Wilson Joel's wife Liza has, for an unexplained reason, committed suicide. Wilson one night discovers a sealed letter from his wife, which he believes to be her suicide note. In his grief-stricken state and with the added stress of finding the letter, which he cannot bring himself to open and read, he forms an addiction to inhaling gasoline fumes . In order to hide his... addiction from a work colleague, he informs her that the petrol smell in his house is from his hobby of flying remote controlled planes. To try to engage an ever-distant Wilson, she asks her brother-in-law Denny , a radio control hobbyist, to visit Wilson. With the knowledge of an impending visit from Denny, Wilson heads down to the local RC hobbyist shop to buy himself a plane. He also stocks up on some RC fuel to fill his plane and feed his addiction.
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| Release date: | January 14, 2002 |
| Directed by: | Todd Louiso |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Producer: | Fernando Sulichin, Ruth Charny, Jeff Roda, Chris Hanley |
| Editor: | Anne Stein |
| Music by: | Jim O'Rourke |
| Cinematography: | Lisa Rinzler |
| Screenplay by: | Gordy Hoffman |
| Estimated budget: | $1,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |