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- 1984
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 1984
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
Summary A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Directed By: Arthur Hiller
Written By: Ed. Weinberger, Stan Daniels, Neil Simon, Bruce Jay Friedman
- 1984
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 1984
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
The Lonely Guy
45
5.6
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Summary A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Directed By: Arthur Hiller
Written By: Ed. Weinberger, Stan Daniels, Neil Simon, Bruce Jay Friedman
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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80% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
45
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
80% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
This comedy has some wonderful gags and a lot of other good ideas for gags, but it was directed by Arthur Hiller, who is the opposite of a perfectionist, and it makes you feel as if you were watching television.
Martin’s trademark wacky humor is fitfully in evidence, but seems much more repressed than usual in order to fit into the relatively realistic world of single working people.
Mostly I laughed at the idea that Steve Martin could ever understand what it means to be a lonely guy, and that Arthur Hiller, who directed this, or Neil Simon, who adapted it, or Ed Weinberger and Stan Daniels, who wrote it, could ever understand what it means to be a lonely guy. [28 Jan 1984]
There is more truth to the lives of people alone than Hiller and his writers have cared to admit, and, consequently, more humor. The Lonely Guy is short on both. [31 Jan 1984, p.B5]
The film gets in trouble, as most contemporary comedies do, when it runs out of disassociated gags and casts about desperately for a story to tell; here, the lonely guy premise is dropped completely for a series of more-or-less conventional romantic misunderstandings centered on a dull Judith Ivey.
The Lonely Guy is the kind of movie that inspires you to distract yourself by counting the commercial products visible on the screen, and speculating about whether their manufacturers paid fees to have them worked into the movie.
A mindless comedy that's about as funny as a life sentence in solitary confinement.
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Based on 7 User Ratings
5.6
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User Score
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Based on 7 User Ratings
5.6
14% Positive
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1 Rating
71% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
14% Negative
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