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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396174313
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 06, 2007
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 19175
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Recently widowed Marilyn (Brenda Vaccaro), still reeling over the sudden death of her husband, finds an unexpected new circle of friends when she accepts an invitation to join The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club. While not ready to embark on a relationship herself, she is amused to realize that many of her contemporaries are actively looking for love. Lois (Dyan Cannon) is being courted by a younger man (Michael Nouri), while Harry (Joseph Bologna) tries internet dating and encourages his friend Jack (Len Cariou) to pursue a romance with the mysterious Sandy (Sally Kellerman). The Boynton Beach Club proves that 60 IS the new 40 and you’re never too old to fall in love.
Amazon.com:
Early in the charming romantic comedy Boynton Beach Club, one randy 70-something guy makes a heartfelt toast to 'sex after 60'--in all of its untidy, slightly saggy, unpredictable glory. And so is this film, by Susan Seidelman, as much a toast to love among the retiree set as her Desperately Seeking Susan was a valentine to Madonna and the early '80s hipster scene. The all-star cast, including Joe Bologna, Dyan Cannon, Sally Kellerman, Brenda Vaccaro, and Michael Nouri, explore the nuances of grief, loss, heartbreak, and horniness in a retirement community in Boynton Beach, Fla. The usual jokes about senior communities--the outnumbering of men by women, the orchestrated community-center social lives, the bad driving--are here, but with a twist. Seidelman is just as interested in showing that some things, like schoolgirl crushes, one-night-stand cads, and finding love when you think you're not even looking, are as universal whether you're 17 or 70. While some of the cast seem almost distracting at the beginning of the film, because of apparently drastic plastic surgery (Cannon and Kellerman, especially), by the film's end they blend in with the rest of the cast, just as facelifts coexist with sagging jawlines in real Florida towns. Boynton Beach Club has a big heart, and the heart, thankfully, never shows its age. --A.T. Hurley
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Rating:  - Senior Citizens Get Their Due in a Serviceable Romcom
Give director/co-screenwriter Susan Seidelman (Gaudi Afternoon) credit for focusing on a segment sadly neglected in current cinema, single sixty-somethings facing lives without their lifetime partners. There is a gentle, loping quality to this seriocomic 2006 character-driven comedy, but it also doesn't feel quite substantial enough to provide genuine insight into their difficult situations. The various storylines rarely feel more complex than an episode of The Golden Girls, but the principal actors - some rarely seen outside of guest appearances on reruns of Murder, She Wrote - compensate to a great degree.
There are three plot threads that intertwine over the course of the movie. Long-married Marilyn faces an unexpected tragedy when her exercise-obsessed husband is killed by a thoughtless woman backing her car out of a driveway. She decides to join the Boynton Beach Bereavement Club (the movie's original title) upon the prodding of Lois, a still-sexy, flirtatious interior decorator who is the unofficial social leader of the club. As Marilyn faces her anger and loneliness, Lois finds herself drawn to Donald, a younger man whom she believes is a real estate tycoon. Also in the club is Harry, who fancies himself a ladies' man and wants to help Jack, newly widowed and prime bait for the widows in the retirement community. Jack isn't ready to date until he meets Sandy, a very interested woman who isn't quite what she claims. Harry, on the other hand, tries online dating, but he finds trouble ... Read More
Rating:  - Overrated
Instead of renting/watching this movie, watch Caddy Shack for the 20th time. Boyton Beach Club was, for the most part, boring. Big disappointment, or as they say in the ACC....OVER RATED !!!!!
Rating:  - Boynton Beach Fun...
I throughly enjoyed every minute of the movie. The stars just kept on coming. A little sad but big smiles as well. Great little movie.
Rating: - Dating over 50
I loved this movie! For anyone who is over 45 and out there dating again, you'll find something to chuckle over. The actors will remind you of yourself or someone you know. Who said being over 50 wasn't sexy? I've purchased several copies and sent them to friends. It is for the young at heart, if not young in age.
Rating: - Great acting, good script!
An easy to watch wonderful movie about mature people going back out to find a partner after a loss. Len Cariou brings masterful dignity to his role as a new widower whom we watch grow steadier as the film progresses. Joe Bologna is brilliant, with his comic timing, his warmth and heart clearly visible in the delightful Harry. Brenda Vaccaro gives an Academy Award quality performance of a justifiably angry woman who pushes herself to reclaim life after losing her husband. It's a treat to see Dyan Cannon with all her coiled energy light up the screen with superb acting, Sally Kellerman still has Hot Lips that are sweetened by her dignified performance as a shy and fiery divorcee, and cameos by Mal Z. Lawrence and Renee Taylor are split second down to the last dot perfect.
That this film has not seen greater success is a mystery. It's timely, smart, witty, at times hilarious, it touches hearts, it has a great cast of seasoned likeable credible actors whose synergy one feels through the screen.
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