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- 1995
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 55 m
- 1995
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 55 m
Summary Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Mary Louise Parker star as the unlikeliest of friends on a cross-country journey of discovery. (Warner Bros.)
Directed By: Herbert Ross
Written By: Don Roos
- 1995
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 55 m
- 1995
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 55 m
Boys on the Side
60
6.8
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Summary Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Mary Louise Parker star as the unlikeliest of friends on a cross-country journey of discovery. (Warner Bros.)
Directed By: Herbert Ross
Written By: Don Roos
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
60
61% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
28% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
60
61% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
28% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Yet even with those slightly different chords, Ross manages to pluck the right heartstrings, in the process delivering a grade-A tear-jerker.
There are no real surprises, and it's arguable whether three such disparate souls as these would, in reality, bond so well. But the acting is flawless, the principals fleshing out their characters far beyond their hastily sketched stereotypes.
The film's occasional jarring shifts in tone are a liability, but not a fatal one: It's a character-driven piece and the beautifully-crafted characters mask the narrative flaws.
Goldberg, for all her character's tough bluster, is sweet too: Her performance here is contained, modulated, dignified without cushioning the Whoopi edge that makes her work so interesting and uncategorizable.
Here he has Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore and James Remar to distract us from the depths to which Ross habitually stoops in the never-ending quest to reacquaint an audience with its cheapest emotions.
Roos and director Herbert Ross pave the long and grinding road to self-fulfillment with miles and miles of counterfeit poignancy.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.8
75% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.8
75% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
13% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
13% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
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Awards
GLAAD Media Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Nomination
Moscow International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
