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  • 1989
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 1989
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary Randy (Patrick Dempsey) is still unfocused after two years in college. His father will no longer pay tuition and Randy gets a job delivering pizzas. Several cute cougars pay him $200 for pizza delivery and "services rendered". Their husbands?

Directed By: Joan Micklin Silver

Written By: Robin Schiff, Tom Ropelewski, Leslie Dixon

  • 1989
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 1989
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 38 m

Loverboy

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
36
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Summary Randy (Patrick Dempsey) is still unfocused after two years in college. His father will no longer pay tuition and Randy gets a job delivering pizzas. Several cute cougars pay him $200 for pizza delivery and "services rendered". Their husbands?

Directed By: Joan Micklin Silver

Written By: Robin Schiff, Tom Ropelewski, Leslie Dixon

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
36
25% Positive
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50% Mixed
4 Reviews
25% Negative
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63
EVERY TIME Loverboy veers toward the predictable or the situationally comedic, it rights itself. The film merits much more than a passing sigh as yet another flick for the teen audience. [2 May 1989, p.4D]
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63
Silver garners a hilarious performance from Dempsey, whose charm is only surpassed by his talent for slapstick. And though she lets the movie lapse into a lengthy montage in the middle, she keeps the story's wit and romance intact to the very end. Loverboy is a movie worth falling for. [2 May 1989, p.C5]
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60
Powerhouse cameos, just enough sauce and extra anchovies that no one will be complaining about.
By Angie Errigo FULL REVIEW
40
The film's premise is hopelessly ludicrous. Plus, though Patrick Dempsey is an agile light comedian, he's hardly plausible as a lady-killer. Patrick Swayze he's not. Alfalfa, maybe.
By Hal Hinson FULL REVIEW
40
Lover Boy should have had the courage to admit it is hopelessly tacky.
By Caryn James FULL REVIEW
30
The director has been able to do nothing with this wheezing script, one of the subplots of which involves Dempsey's dad believing that his son is gay. And the movie's moments of physical farce are mortifying...What makes "Loverboy"(rated PG-13 for sexual situations) such a pitiful waste is that Dempsey has so much potential charm.
By Sheila Benson FULL REVIEW
25
Add the American work ethic to an Italian bedroom farce, give it to a director reknowned for small, natural, gently humorous films, and you come up with Loverboy, a comedy that is more often distasteful than funny. [2 May 1989, p.7C]
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Production Company Crescent Film Enterprises
Release Date Apr 28, 1989
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Randy Bodek has no idea how to treat a woman . . . but he's working on it. [Theatrical]
Website http://www.sonymoviechannel.com/movies/loverboy
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