Living Out Loud is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard LaGravenese and set in New York City, starring Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah, Martin Donovan, and Elias Koteas.

But after she puts her studies on hold to find a job and support them, over 20 years pass until suddenly he leaves Judith to be with another doctor.

Judith returns home drunk, is very unfriendly to Pat and soon she calls over a man who gives erotic massages.

Liz takes Judith to an after hours women's dance club, giving her a pill so she loses her inhibitions.

They inevitably fight, and Judith scares him enough in front of his lawyer to warrant him to pressure her to forfeit her share of the profits to avoid jail time.

Ebert gave particular praise to writer and director Richard LaGravenese, who he wrote is "more interested in characters and dialogue than in shaping everything into a conventional story.

He aims for the kind of bittersweet open ends that life itself so often supplies; he doesn't hammer his square pegs into round holes.

"[6] The New York Times critic Janet Maslin was less favorable, writing that LaGravenese "has borrowed from Chekhov the soul-baring introspection that can be so ineffable on the page or stage yet becomes so damply sensitive and dramatically vague on the screen" and, in describing some of the "wild flights of fancy springing from Judith's imagination," observed that "free-spirited as the film hopes to be, it can't easily reconcile such flamboyant departures with an otherwise static pace."

Maslin credited Latifah as the film's "one big saving grace," and also offered praise for DeVito for "turning Pat into a three-dimensional figure and singing They Can't Take That Away from Me with brio on the nightclub's amateur night.