Seidelman maintains the narrow path between ridicule and dignity in a movie that dishes out humour even-handedly, but spares the characters total humiliation.
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11/03/06
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The Boynton Beach Club (2006)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:15
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.3/10
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.
Theatrical Release:Aug 4, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $3,007,009
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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Reviews for The Boynton Beach Club
Top CriticReplaces 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
Top CriticThere's no character in the group who doesn't ooze good-natured charm.
08/31/06
Top CriticMore a series of anecdotes than an insightful dramedy and relies too much on absurd coincidences and needless sitcom-style lying.
08/25/06
Top CriticSeidelman's movie doesn't dig deep, and the comedy too quickly veers into routine relationship territory -- albeit with wrinkles.
08/25/06
Top CriticNot a very good movie, but it somehow manages to be enjoyable.
08/25/06
Top CriticThis funny, nervy, and pointedly unrated geriatric sex comedy is both enhanced and occasionally limited by being targeted at baby boomers.
08/25/06
Top CriticWhile it occasionally strains to be cute and borders on sitcom, many issues addressed will ring true to the over-65 crowd, its target audience.
08/18/06
Top CriticThese characters' longing for affection and their fear of loneliness are both painfully specific and soothingly universal: We are all Boynton Beach.
08/18/06
Top CriticThe Boynton Beach Club won't make anyone happy to grow old, but it sure works hard at providing the counterintuitive lesson to our youth-nuts culture: It's okay to age. Life doesn't end when your spouse goes ka-flop and your chin goes ker-plop.
08/17/06
Top CriticThe ladies at the center of this enjoyable comedy are vibrant, opinionated, sassy, vulnerable and a lot of fun.
08/17/06
Top CriticThe script is longer on good intentions than on good dialogue.
08/17/06
Top CriticLen 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
Top CriticYou 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
Top CriticA lively and poignant comedy with lots of laughs and juicy roles for a roster of seasoned performers who should be seen more often.
08/04/06
Top CriticWhile 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
Top CriticAt the Boynton Beach Club, seniors are just as vulnerable in romance as their younger counterparts, something the film shows without being too corny.
08/03/06
Top CriticUpbeat 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 CriticA thoughtful and nicely observed dramedy about a group of AARP-sters grappling with life, loss, love and -- gasp -- sex in a South Florida 'active adult community.'
08/03/06
Top CriticThe 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
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