Loverboy (2005)

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Amateur movie with Big budget

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I LOVED this flick! And I am not a movie person and only occasionally will I go to the video store. I am glad that I picked up this movie, although I usually pick up a movie when I know that Kyra is involved. I also like Kevin Bacon whom I first watched on the soap opera, The Guiding Light" some 26 years ago.I really connected with Emily's loneliness, her desire to create a family that would not desert her and her panic when she realizes that everybody leaves. And that it's OK to watch your birds fly out in the world. I was intrigued by the way that you are lead to the end of the story.My only sort of "complaint" is that at the very end, I would have liked to have less narration and more time to speculate internally.Thank you.

I get the point of the movie, Kyra plays the neglected child of the self absorbed and sex crazed Kevin and Marissa. I just found it rather poorly written and unnecessarily sexual for these characters. I mean, do we really need to SEE her have sex with half a dozen men in half a dozen places to get the point that she wants to get pregnant? I love Sandra, Kyra and Kevin and Marissa....but this movie was sadly beneath any of their talents. I am happy, however that Kevin Bacan is so thrilled with his wife's fabulous body. I guess that to me was a little weird as well, knowing her husband was the director of all of her sex scenes. Not only was the movie twisted, but the director and cast as well.

Interesting though thematically bludgeoned "family" film detailing the singular obsession Emily (Kyra Sedgwick) has for producing and raising her very own child. While layering a good amount of light-hearted humor into the affair, the movie is undoubtedly subversive in the process of relaying so many well meaning points. The unique material will most likely find an audience with females, and mothers in particular, having much less of a hold on the opposite sex. Although this material is presented in a somewhat compelling manner through the textured workings exuded from Segwick, the novel that this was adapted from clearly lost something in transition, from the competent though unimpressive pacing that stretches some time periods out too long- yet feels way abridged in others, to a just plain unfortunate air of mediocrity found throughout the production values. Not helping things much is Loverboy himself, played by an adorable, but immature Dominic Scott Kay, who crushes some of the realism with his performance. Even as original and interesting as Segwick's character seemed, I became less interested as the character became caricature, displayed through the eventual predictability of her unpredictability. While it was every intention of the film to associate this character with those attributes, what should have been her son's perception of her, ended up being mine as well, which somehow negated all of Krya's quieter, and effecting moments. Bacon himself deserves a job well done for an admirable debut behind the lens (except for not getting more damn re-shoots of that kid!), offering decent direction and a funny little role to boot. The script's insistence at repeating itself does grate a little but fortunately the themes do hold water in this one, although primarily for women and in a non-direct, after-effect sort of way, due to the sensitive though underdeveloped screenplay.

Kevin Bacon is a fine actor, and I was looking forward to this, his debut as a director. He's certainly worked with some of the best in the business, and one would hope that he'd picked up some great lessons in film making.But this film, sadly, doesn't offer us much.I believe the two main reasons it doesn't work are the script, and the casting of Kyra Sedgewick, Mr. Bacons real life wife.The script is pretentious and humorless and forced, and Ms. Sedgewick, a fine actress with a beautiful body (shown off here quite often) is almost fetishized by her husband in this film- to the detriment of the story itself.It's a film chock-a-block with celebrity cameos, everyone from Matt Dillion to Sandra Bullock to Campbell Scott and Marisa Tomei, and no one really survives it.I will say this though- it is a BOLD failure, and I do look forward to what Mr. Bacon can do with a half decent script. He (and we) deserve better.