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SummaryBrilliant, 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)

Loverboy

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23% Positive
3 Reviews
54% Mixed
7 Reviews
23% Negative
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75
New York Post
First-time director Kevin Bacon (Mr. Sedgwick) cleverly maintains a balance of discomfiting and familiar by jumping nimbly around Emily's life.
70
Film Threat
Kevin Bacon's witty and effective, yet squirm-inducing, directorial debut.
50
TV Guide Magazine
It all adds up to an unfortunate misfire: a film at odds with both its source material and itself.
50
The New York Times
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.
50
Village Voice
Bacon the director indulges his wife, letting her play crazy and emotional in a showy performance that screams "serious actress."
38
New York Daily News
The real trouble is at its core, with an over-the-top performance from Sedgwick that borders on Baby Jane campiness.
25
Christian Science Monitor
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.
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  • Bigel / Mailer Films
  • Millennium Films
  • Mixed Breed Films
Jun 16, 2006
1 h 24 m
R
Some mothers aren't meant to be moms.
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
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