I too saw this at the Phoenix Film Festival and while Kyra Sedgewick's acting was above average, I found the plot utterly confusing, and just plain out gross. The story followed this woman who is so obsessed with her son that she treats him like her lover. Hence the title "loverboy" I guess. It tries really hard to try to connect her childhood into this whole mess of a story, but fails to execute and deliver. When she was a little girl she had mean parents and was fat. Then they try to put Sandra Bulloch into it implying she was something special to her. This is all told through recurring dreams she haves. I barely walked out of the theater. The acting was pretty good, I guess. Kyra Sedgewick was really good for most of the time. sometimes she acted so well it was scary. And sometimes she acted so bad, she was scary. The kid was good too, although all he had to do was get mad all the time. Kevin Bacon and Marisa Tomei actually acted pretty well for her parents, being the comic relief. Matt Dillion, the fatherly guy to the kid, has done better and deserves better. Sandra Bulloch said nothing at all (WTF?!) she was just there. Technically, the cinematography was pretty average, no real interesting shots or anything. The editing is probably the second worst thing next to the story and the story is really really bad. They could of spent way more time editing this better. It could of made the story better, not worse! The only reason I stayed in the theater was to see Kevin Bacon afterward. I was going to give him some advice. Don't ever direct another movie again. 'Cause every time Mr. Bacon directs something, someone in the six degrees of you dies! So stick to acting, Kevin. For all our sakes!
Review of Loverboy
