It falls too easily into romantic comedy movie conventions, but for the first two-thirds at least, it's an enjoyably sassy comedy, reveling in the all-too-rare idea that mature people are people too.
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08/18/06
The Boynton Beach Club (2006)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:31
Rotten:21
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: While the movie has been praised for showcasing a cinematically underused and disrespected age group, it also has the small-screen feel of a silly sitcom.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Lois, Harry, Marilyn ,Sandy and Jack live in an "Active Adult" community in Boynton Beach, Florida. Their lives intersect when they meet at a local Bereavement Club where they go to find emotional... [More]
Starring: Joseph Bologna, Dyan Cannon, Len Cariou, Sally Kellerman
Director: Susan Seidelman
Reviews for The Boynton Beach Club
Puts the va-va in sixties voom.
08/15/06
There are few scenes in films that I regret seeing, two of which are unfortunately in Susan Seidelman's maudlin "The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club."
11/06/06
hanks to Susan Seidelman for reminding us that romantic comedy is suitable for any population or age group...
11/18/06
The problem with the film is that, although it is well performed and competently directed, the blandness of the result renders it easy to watch but hard to be enthusiastic about.
08/03/06
Not a very good movie, but it somehow manages to be enjoyable.
08/25/06
A bittersweet comedy about aging Baby Boomers and their valiant efforts to find love and their share of happiness in an active adult community in Florida.
07/22/06
Upbeat and occasionally self-consciously kooky, Boynton Beach Club doesn't exactly plumb the depths of the aging experience, but it has its moments of surprise and offers a look at life past the point where movies are generally interested.
08/03/06
Top CriticSeidelman's movie doesn't dig deep, and the comedy too quickly veers into routine relationship territory -- albeit with wrinkles.
08/25/06
Jokes set up humane feelings, the actors (including Brenda Vaccaro and Joseph Bologna) hit their marks gracefully, Seidelman doesn't overload cuteness.
08/04/06
The script, co-written by Seidelman, based on her mother Florence's adventures in a butterfly-balloted suburban retirement community, feels like it was written by Neil Simon on a bad comb-over day.
08/18/06
[D]irector-writer Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan) is hoping her target audience will abandon the shuffleboard courts for the multiplex.
05/04/06
Ultimately, the film comes off as a sexed-up cable episode of The Golden Girls, but it still offers amusing scenarios and likeable older characters of a sort too seldom seen on modern movie screens.
10/13/06
Len Cariou is touching as a widower whose pain has left him in a daze, Joseph Bologna has a great speech about senior bachelorhood, and Dyan Cannon, at 69, is still a flower.
08/09/06
A sincere and honest little dramedy for and about Hollywood's most underserved age group: senior citizens.
08/05/06
Replaces one set of clichés with another, and does what all lame comedies do to young and old alike: It robs them of their humanity and makes them cute.
11/03/06
Unsatisfying comedy-drama, which features a cheesy golden-oldies soundtrack that feels even more packaged than the dialogue.
08/25/06
The achievement of Boynton Beach Club is to remind moviegoers that there are huge portions of the population who never appear on-screen and that they have interesting lives, too.
08/31/06
...the fabulous cast makes sure the good lines have some zing.
08/17/06
You might be excused for speculating that it is really a high school romantic comedy whose teenage characters are played by their grandparents.
08/04/06
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