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08/05/06
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
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04/23/09
...it has a temporal dislocation that diminishes its believability.
08/10/06
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
Despite its best intentions, this seems like a hack job, a routine directing assignment shoved through its paces under the restrictions of a low budget.
11/03/06
More a series of anecdotes than an insightful dramedy and relies too much on absurd coincidences and needless sitcom-style lying.
08/25/06
While Seidelman deserves considerable credit for making the rare romantic comedy about seniors, it's a shame the movie itself is as bland as a low-sodium diet.
08/04/06
Best seen as a pilot for a Golden Girls spinoff, ready for cancellation in week two.
08/03/06
Decidedly unadventurous, like a dish prepared for palates that prefer the bland to the spicy--a sort of American Pie reformulated for seniors.
08/10/06
It's all harmless enough, predictable but refreshingly free from condescension, and will probably find a long life on cable television.
08/04/06
[D]irector-writer Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan) is hoping her target audience will abandon the shuffleboard courts for the multiplex.
05/04/06
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
Its obsession with elderly sex makes it come off like a dirtier, extended-play version of the long-running television series The Golden Girls.
10/06/06
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
Unsatisfying comedy-drama, which features a cheesy golden-oldies soundtrack that feels even more packaged than the dialogue.
08/25/06
The script is longer on good intentions than on good dialogue.
08/17/06
Good intentions and strong thespians aside, Seidelman's writing and filmmaking are bland, obvious and uninvolving.
10/06/06
An almost oppressively gentle romantic comedy for the Golden Girls set.
08/17/06
Plays like a bloated version of an old episode of Love, American Style.
08/03/06
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