Loverboy

Name: Loverboy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: June 16, 2006
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Campbell Scott, Dominic Scott Kay, Kyra Sedgwick

2006

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Screen Media Films | Release Date: June 16, 2006 | R

Starring: Campbell Scott, Dominic Scott Kay, Kyra Sedgwick

Summary: 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)

Director: Kevin Bacon

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 84 min

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Kyle Smith

First-time director Kevin Bacon (Mr. Sedgwick) cleverly maintains a balance of discomfiting and familiar by jumping nimbly around Emily's life. Read full review

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. Read full review

Bob Westal

Kevin Bacon's witty and effective, yet squirm-inducing, directorial debut. Read full review

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. Read full review

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. Read full review

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. Read full review

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. Read full review

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RegOz

Apr 6, 2012

Unfortunately, I don't think this movie has gotten all the attention it deserves. That is perhaps one of the reasons why it is not well known and up to certain point, underrated. I believe this is a very unique, innovative work. It has a great cast, and could have been a great film butUnfortunately, I don't think this movie has gotten all the attention it deserves. That is perhaps one of the reasons why it is not well known and up to certain point, underrated. I believe this is a very unique, innovative work. It has a great cast, and could have been a great film but sadly, it is not . 'Loverboy' collides with some conservative views for it challenges certain aspects of parenthood. It is intriguing, intelligent,and innovative. I never felt bored..although at times I got lost. I know there was plenty of room for improvement. The story needed more fluidity and some of the characters needed to be developed further. Overall, a good movie that with a better script, and more consistency, could have been a 9.… Expand

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KenG.

Jul 21, 2006

They came up with an intruing premise, but failed to come up with a compelling script, as story just sort of sputters along.

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TheHatMan

Feb 28, 2018

This is literally the absolute most horrific movies I've ever had the displessure of seeing. The fact that it's rated as a "Romance" makes me physically sick to my very core. I can easily write down 20 pages about why it doesn't work and how overrated it truly is, but I don't have theThis is literally the absolute most horrific movies I've ever had the displessure of seeing. The fact that it's rated as a "Romance" makes me physically sick to my very core. I can easily write down 20 pages about why it doesn't work and how overrated it truly is, but I don't have the patience. The number one worst movie I've seen. Congratz! 0/10… Expand

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