Boys on the Side

Name: Boys on the Side
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: February 3, 1995
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Mary-Louise Parker, Whoopi Goldberg

1995

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Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: February 3, 1995 | R

Starring: Drew Barrymore, Mary-Louise Parker, Whoopi Goldberg

Summary: Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Mary Louise Parker star as the unlikeliest of friends on a cross-country journey of discovery. (Warner Bros.)

Director: Herbert Ross

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 115 min

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Brian Lowry

Yet even with those slightly different chords, Ross manages to pluck the right heartstrings, in the process delivering a grade-A tear-jerker. Read full review

Peter Rainer

It's so shamelessly obliging that just about every audience of whatever stripe will find something to like in it at least some of the time. It's a confoundingly enjoyable movie because, by all rights, it should be terrible. Read full review

Elvis Mitchell

What matters more is that Ms. Goldberg, along with her co-stars Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore, is so sharp, funny and wholehearted that this film creates an unexpected groundswell of real emotion. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

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. Read full review

Barbara Shulgasser

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. Read full review

Michael Sragow

The picture is schmaltzy and phallus-shrivelling, too. Read full review

Karen Schoemer

Once the film devolves into teary hospital scenes and courtroom shtik, you might pine for Thelma and Louise's daring road to oblivion. [20 Feb 1995, Pg.72]

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