The least satisfying of Steve Martin's early movies.
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05/24/03
The Lonely Guy (1984)
48 %
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Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 10
Rotten:11
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A struggling greeting card writer living in New York is forced to leave his girlfriend after he finds her in bed with another man. In an attempt to alleviate his despair, he writes a book about being a "lonely guy," making him an overnight sex... [More]
Starring: Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence
Director: Arthur Hiller
Reviews for The Lonely Guy
Top Critic Martin's trademark wacky humor is fitfully in evidence, but seems much more repressed than usual in order to fit into the relatively realistic world of single working people.
10/03/07
Top Critic A mindless comedy that's about as funny as a life sentence in solitary confinement.
10/03/07
The kind of movie that seems to have been made to play in empty theaters on overcast January afternoons.
10/23/04
Top Critic It tries a little bit of everything, and winds up with an air of messy desperation.
08/30/04
Top Critic
Alternando o besteirol e a comédia de situações, o filme é consistentemente engraçado e surpreendentemente sensível. Um dos melhores da carreira de Steve Martin.
03/22/04
Very funny, early Steve Martin comedy. Has some great bits including a gag with spary-on sweat and another with cardboard stand-ups doubling as friends for lonely guys. Not Martin's funniest film, but it's up there.
08/09/02
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