Product Description: In the most haunting performance of her career Kyra Sedgwick plays Emily a beautiful and brilliant loner obsessed with having the perfect child. Passionately determined Emily s desperation will drive her to commit shocking and perilous acts; pushing her closer to the edge of sanity. An unflinching look at one woman s frightening decent into obsession love and paranoia Loverboy features an acclaimed A-List cast that includes Matt Dillon Marisa Tomei Campbell Scott and Kevin Bacon in this starkly beautiful and unforgettable film.System Requirements:Running Time: 86 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â DRAMA Rating:Â R UPC:Â 025193097323 Manufacturer No:Â 30973
Amazon.com: A quirky film about a single mother and the suffocating, tragic love she has for her 6-year-old child, Loverboy serves as an answer to anyone who might wonder if you can love your child too much: Absolutely. Emily (Kyra Sedgwick from The Closer) is an eccentric, anti-social woman yearning for the affection her parents showered on each other, but never on her. All her hopes and dreams are thrust upon her young son Paul (Dominic Scott Kay). Not only is adorable, but he's also incredibly mature and patient. Though his mother lavishes him with attention, gourmet meals, and an almost fairytale existence, Paul wants stability and normalcy. He yearns for a father. He wants to go to school with the other kids. And though he's only 6, he's old enough to know that having a mother who refers to him as 'Loverboy' is just plain wrong. Directed by Sedgwick's husband, Kevin Bacon (The Woodsman, Mystic River), the film veers unsteadily between ironic comedic moments and touching drama. Full of cameos (Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt, Marisa Tomei, and Bacon, who plays Emily's father in flashback sequences), the film does a fine job of conveying Emily's desperation to be the only person who matters to Paul. But because she's such a manipulative freak, it's difficult for the viewer to feel much empathy for her as she tries to shelter her boy from the world. 'There's no falling in love like the falling in love with a child,' she says early in the movie. Ultimately, that's her downfall. --Jae-Ha Kim
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Rating: - Garbage Masquerading As Art
Is there anything
amusing, lighthearted or redeeming
about extreme psychological illness,
sexual depravity, child abuse, suicide
and attempted murder?
This movie would have you think so.
There is no reason to view this film
and numerous reasons not to.
Do not be seduced by its pedigree.
It's technical merit is wasted.
Rating: - "Has a mother ever loved her son more?"
I rented this movie on a whim because I remembered the trailer being pretty interesting. Let me just say that I was not disappointed. Kyra Sedgwick was brilliant as Emily, and I was really able to identify with her. As a mother of a two-year-old boy, I found the first three-fourths of this movie to be oddly inspiring. Possibly due to my young age of 21, I've never wanted to be the typical soccer-mom so I found Emily's eclectic style of parenting to be rather appealing. For example, the splatter-painting Paul's room, camping out in the backyard, the 'roam abouts', etc. One of my absolute favorite scenes is where Emily plays an invisible flute in the rain as Paul conducts (if anyone knows the name of the song, please let me know). On the other hand, Emily's obsession went off the deep end towards the end of the movie and you can actually see her just going over the edge as Paul pushes for more independence. All of ... Read More
Rating: - poignant and somewhat disturbing
I had no idea this movie was based on a novel. Had I known that, I would have read the book first. It was a very dramatic film but is not a complete downer. It had a bittersweet ending which took me by surprise, although the first segment of the ending is predictable. I would have preferred to have the ending the same way it happened in the book, but Kevin Bacon decided to change it to show the beauty and value of the relationship between Kyra Sedgwick's character and her son Paul.
Basically, this story is about a woman who grew up being neglected by her parents and demonstrates what can and does happen when the child grows up. Neglecting children is often worse than physically abusing them. One of the strange things about humans is that whatever terrorizes and tramatizes us in childhood, becomes a source of attraction later in life. In this film we see a woman who was tramatized by neglect from ... Read More
Rating: - Lets not put lipstick on the pig .. its a psychopath movie!
Actually I don't really like psychopath movies and I'm a little bugged out that the 'previews' pushed the concept of 'an overy obsessive mother' wanting to have the perfect child. Trust me that is not the case with the kind of ending this movie dumped on my lap .....
OK the good thing about the movie and it's time warp meandering meant that I didn't know how it was going to end, but, of course even though it had all the elements that our heroine would any minute fall on the right track, way down deep, I knew it wasn't going to end well.....
To make matters worse I'm not a big fan of Kyra Sedgewick and her TV series but she certainly was stupendous in this movie and with that smoking hot body .... well nuff said ......
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