An inventive comic meditation on being single.
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08/19/04
The Lonely Guy (1984)
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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... [More]
Starring: Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence
Director: Arthur Hiller
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Reviews for The Lonely Guy
The kind of movie that seems to have been made to play in empty theaters on overcast January afternoons.
10/23/04
Top CriticArthur Hiller's direction exudes a flavorless professionalism, a quality that doesn't count for much in this context.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe least satisfying of Steve Martin's early movies.
05/24/03
It tries a little bit of everything, and winds up with an air of messy desperation.
08/30/04
Top CriticFunny stuff.
07/13/06
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 CriticA mindless comedy that's about as funny as a life sentence in solitary confinement.
10/03/07
Martin and pathos just don't mix.
11/03/02
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
Gets funnier with age.
07/26/02
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
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08/22/03
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12/18/04
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09/21/05
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07/26/02
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09/16/02
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11/05/05
No review available.
08/13/02
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