Not a very good movie, but it somehow manages to be enjoyable.
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08/25/06
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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.
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
This 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 CriticThe 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
These 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 actors seem to be having fun, but the gags are all well past the mandatory retirement age.
08/18/06
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.
08/18/06
The 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 Critic...the fabulous cast makes sure the good lines have some zing.
08/17/06
An almost oppressively gentle romantic comedy for the Golden Girls set.
08/17/06
Puts the va-va in sixties voom.
08/15/06
...it has a temporal dislocation that diminishes its believability.
08/10/06
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
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
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08/05/06
A sincere and honest little dramedy for and about Hollywood's most underserved age group: senior citizens.
08/05/06
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
Susan Seidelman's sweet-natured, episodic comedy-drama about life and love in a planned Florida development for 'active seniors' offers fine actors and actresses of a certain age the opportunity to step out of supporting roles and back into the spotlight.
08/04/06
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