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Loverboy

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Based on 3 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Romance
Written by:
Hannah Shakespeare
Victoria Redel (novel)
Directed by: Kevin Bacon
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 16, 2006
DVD: September 19, 2006
Running Time: 84 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for sexuality
Starring Kyra Sedgwick, Dominic Scott Kay, Kevin Bacon, Blair Brown, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt, Campbell Scott, and Marisa Tomei
Brilliant, beautiful and financially secure, Emily Stoll (Sedgwick) never wanted a husband or a house with a picket fence. She knew she needed just one thing to make her happy: a child with whom she could share life's wonders. (ThinkFilm)
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What The Critics Said
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New York Post Kyle Smith
First-time director Kevin Bacon (Mr. Sedgwick) cleverly maintains a balance of discomfiting and familiar by jumping nimbly around Emily's life.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
Loverboy is a grim little story, but it's leavened unexpectedly with humor and energy. A stylish and thoughtful director, Bacon marries music to image beautifully.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Bob Westal
Kevin Bacon's witty and effective, yet squirm-inducing, directorial debut.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter James Greenberg
Good performances and a keen eye for period detail can't disguise the fact that not much is happening here story-wise.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
A classic case of "Better if you didn't read the book" cinema, Loverboy emerges an OK character study of an abnormally possessive mother.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Luke Y. Thompson
Bacon the director indulges his wife, letting her play crazy and emotional in a showy performance that screams "serious actress."
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
actor-turned-director Kevin Bacon (Sedgwick's husband) can't seem to decide if he's making a film about a loving eccentric or a sociopath.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Almost until the end, Loverboy maintains a shaky integrity. But in its final moments it caves in to convention with a mawkish epilogue to a story that ends with an appalling act of selfishness.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Bacon instinctively pushes Loverboy toward surreal domestic satire. It's fascinating to watch Sedgwick try to make Emily into a luminous wack job.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
It all adds up to an unfortunate misfire: a film at odds with both its source material and itself.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The real trouble is at its core, with an over-the-top performance from Sedgwick that borders on Baby Jane campiness.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Though he labors endlessly to account for her behavior, which is explained away by flashbacks to her decadent parents and a glamorous mother-figure played under Vaseline lens by an uncredited Sandra Bullock, Bacon fails to make her seem human.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Bacon lavishes his camera on her (Sedgwick) in various states of dress and undress, but the script, by Hannah Shakespeare - talk about having to live up to a name! - is a cheat. It rarely expands on the boy's crises in having to deal with such a mother.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ken G. gave it a4:
They came up with an intruing premise, but failed to come up with a compelling script, as story just sort of sputters along.
