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Loverboy
ThinkFilm
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Hannah Shakespeare
Victoria Redel (novel)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Kevin Bacon
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 19, 2006
Theatrical: June 16, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
84 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
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.

70
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.

70
Film Threat
Bob Westal
Kevin Bacon's witty and effective, yet squirm-inducing, directorial debut.

60
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.

50
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.

50
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."

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
It all adds up to an unfortunate misfire: a film at odds with both its source material and itself.

38
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.

33
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.

25
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.


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