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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Screen Media
Salesrank: 28387
Released: September 19, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 025193097323 Manufacturer No: 30973
Description of Loverboy:
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
Loverboy Reviews:
Disturbing Slice of Life 
2009-11-27 - This is not the first Bacon/Sedgwick film about a disturbing slice-of-life topic. Case in point - The Woodsman- where Bacon's leading role is that of a pedophile trying to re-enter society and Sedgwick as the woman in his life. Both Loverboy and The Woodsman give the audience much to ponder afterwards. Disturbing topics often overlooked.
While I admire Bacon's grit in showcasing hard-to-look-ats in society, I did not have an easy time with this film. Which I suppose is exactly the point.
Many times I found myself angry, even disgusted with Emily's smothering attempts to fill the voids in her childhood. I found myself alternating between cheering Paul's growth of independence and very definite spurts of outrage at Emily's behavior. Add to the mix the loneliness and ignored needs of the child Emily - my thoughts and feelings were all over the place. You must ask yourself - is this an accurate snapshot of how neglected children might parent their own?
Again, as in The Woodsman, one has to step back and remind themselves not to judge too harshly, asking "how would I have dealt with this if that were my story"?
Much to think about.
Anger, compassion, sadness, gladness - a curious, mixed reaction to a film that while I cannot say I enjoyed, I certainly could not walk away from.
good movie 
2009-11-02 - I bought this movie not thinking that it would be that great..Well when I saw it I was very happy that I bought this movie...Its a story that can be so true and so sad but there are some mothers like the person in the move...I would say if you are looking for a movie that is a little twisted that is base on real life then this is a movie to see.
Garbage Masquerading As Art 
2008-06-10 - 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.
"Has a mother ever loved her son more?" 
2007-07-31 - 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 that being said, I think that it's much easier for a mother to sympathize with Emily rather than condemn her in the end. This has definitely become my favorite movie just because it is so different, and so sadly beautiful. I also picked up the book a few weeks ago, and it was wonderful as well.
poignant and somewhat disturbing
2007-06-05 - 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 her parents (physically, emotionally and mentally). Her parents always put her down, embarrassed her, showed her hardly any affection. Her parents were so close to each other yet so far from her. As the little girl becomes a woman, she becomes a loner or an outcast and is eccentric. When she has a child by some random man she hooked up with, she becomes close to the child, yet so far from him. So far from him in that she doesn't care about his true feelings and doesn't care about him as a person and this is the same thing which traumitized her as a child (neglect). All she is wants from him is love... forever.
