Loverboy (2005)

Director:

Kevin Bacon

Writers:

Hannah Shakespeare (screenplay)
Victoria Redel (novel)

Release Date:

28 April 2005 (Portugal)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Some mothers aren't meant to be moms.

Plot:

A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.

Plot Keywords:

School | Motherhood | Flashback | Garage | Female Nudity

Cast

Kyra Sedgwick	...	Emily
Dominic Scott Kay	...	Paul (6 years old)
Kevin Bacon	...	Marty
Blair Brown	...	Jeanette Rawley
Matt Dillon	...	Mark
Oliver Platt	...	Mr. Pomeroy
Campbell Scott	...	Paul's Father
Marisa Tomei	...	Sybil
Sosie Bacon	...	Emily (10 years old)
Travis Bacon	...	Lenny
John Lafayette	...	Allen Rawley
Jessica Stone	...	Anita Biddle
Melissa Errico	...	Miss Silken
Nancy Giles	...	Principal
Carolyn McCormick	...	Ruth the Realtor
Naelee Rae	...	Allison - 6 years old
John Elsen	...	UPS Delivery Man
Nick Gregory	...	Library Donor
John Legend	...	Memphis Parking Lot Donor (as John Stephens)
Andrew Polk	...	Coke Bottle Glasses Donor
Nicholas Kromka	...	Mrs. Harker's Boy #1
Michael Kromka	...	Mrs. Harker's Boy #2
Eugenie Iseman	...	Sonnet Reciting Girl
Robert Sedgwick	...	Emily's 3rd Grade Teacher (as Rob Sedgwick)
Susan Mieras	...	Crossing Guard
Zach Savage	...	Paul's Pal Jeff
Spencer Treat Clark	...	Paul (16 years old)
Valyn Hall	...	Allison (16 years old)
Paulie	...	Rocky
Sandra Bullock	...	Mrs. Harker
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Steven Hinkle	...	School Kid #1 (uncredited)
Eric Schneider	...	College Kid (uncredited)
Michael Tommer	...	Boy Playing in the Rain (uncredited)

Directed by
Kevin Bacon

Writing credits
Hannah Shakespeare		(screenplay)
Victoria Redel		(novel)

Produced by
Kevin Bacon	....	producer
Gerald Barad	....	executive producer
Daniel Bigel	....	producer
Chris Connolly	....	associate producer
Danny Dimbort	....	executive producer
Randall Emmett	....	co-executive producer
George Furla	....	co-executive producer
Andrew Lang	....	executive producer
Avi Lerner	....	executive producer
Michael Mailer	....	producer
Kyra Sedgwick	....	producer
Trevor Short	....	executive producer
John Thompson	....	executive producer
Pamela Thur	....	line producer (as Pamela Thur-Weir)

Original Music by
Michael Bacon

Cinematography by
Nancy Schreiber

Film Editing by
David Ray

Casting by
Kelli Lerner

Production Design by
Chris Shriver

Set Decoration by
Niamh Byrne

Costume Design by
John A. Dunn

Makeup Department
Patricia Regan	....	makeup department head
Kerrie Smith	....	hair department head

Production Management
Teresa Garber	....	additional post-production supervisor
Pamela Thur	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vebe Borge	....	first assistant director

Art Department
William Booth	....	props
Eric Dean	....	property assistant
Jacob Gitzis	....	product placement
Meghan Murray Collins	....	art production assistant (as Meghan Murray)
Jose Pavon	....	set dresser
Clarke Williams	....	art production assistant
Joanna M. Wright	....	property master
Derek J.W. Wybourn	....	set dresser
Giovanni Rodriguez	....	scenic artist (uncredited)

Sound Department
Antonio L. Arroyo	....	sound mixer
Vincent Camuto	....	boom operator (as Vincent P. Camuto)
Matthew Haasch	....	foley supervisor
Igor Nikolic	....	sound effects editor
Jay Peck	....	foley artist
Jennifer Ralston	....	dialogue editor

Stunts
Chris Barnes	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Aida Artieda	....	additional electrician
Brian Christie	....	dolly grip
Adrian Correia	....	assistant camera
Chris Dixon	....	electrician
Alec Jarnagin	....	Steadicam operator
Maddy Lederman	....	best boy electric
Deborah Lipman	....	additional second camera
Dennis A. Livesey	....	camera assistant: second camera
Scott Maher	....	electrician
Erik Messerschmidt	....	best boy grip
Erik Messerschmidt	....	rigging key grip
Nick Olson	....	electrician
Joseph Paolini	....	grip
Macall B. Polay	....	still photographer
Melvin Pukowsky	....	key grip
Malcolm A. Purnell	....	second assistant camera
Douglas W. Shannon	....	gaffer
Erik Shirai	....	grip
Tom Weston	....	camera operator
Zach Zamboni	....	additional electrician
Laurie Chakel	....	electrician (uncredited)

Casting Department
Kristine Bulakowski	....	extras casting
Geoffrey Miclat	....	casting associate
Driss Tijani	....	extras casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Rebecca Gregg	....	assistant costume designer (as Rebecca Bentjen)
Rebecca Hofherr	....	wardrobe production assistant
Stephanie Biear	....	seamstress (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Kenny Becker	....	color timer
Amanda Pollack	....	associate editor
Catherine Rankin	....	negative cutter

Music Department
James Oakar	....	score preparation

Transportation Department
Charles Spillane	....	transportation captain

Other crew
Diana Berry	....	stand-in
Jenn Bubka	....	set production assistant
Lauren Butler	....	production assistant
Ann Casano	....	production assistant
Melodie Courtney	....	studio teacher
Gerald Fernando	....	craft service
Melinda Garrett	....	development assistant
Gine Lui	....	location supervisor
David Ray Martin	....	location manager
Soren Miltich	....	production assistant
Maire Ni Rochain	....	assistant production coordinator
Greg Outcalt	....	production coordinator
Christine Putnam	....	production assistant
Lonnie Ramati	....	production business affairs
Dorin Razam-Grunfeld	....	office production assistant
Amy Rubin	....	assistant: producers
Kris Schackman	....	location scout
Sascha Springer	....	location assistant
Sascha Springer	....	location scout
Eugene Stamos	....	craft service
Eva Vedock	....	key craft service
Ande Yung	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Bigel / Mailer Films
• Millennium Films
• Mixed Breed Films

Distributors

• Screen Media Films (2006) (USA) (theatrical)
• THINKFilm (2006) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (2005) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Divisa Home Video (2011) (Spain) (DVD)
• Eagle Films (2005) (Non-USA) (all media) (middle east)
• Millennium Films (2005) (non-USA) (all media)
• Nu Image Films (2005) (non-USA) (all media)
• Scanbox Entertainment (2007) (Finland) (DVD)
• Screen Media Ventures (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• e-m-s the DVD-Company (2007) (Germany) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Film Effects  digital opticals
• Kelli Lerner Casting  casting
• Lightnin' Production Rentals  transportation equipment
• Postworks New York  post-production sound services

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Portugal:M/12 | Finland:K-13 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Hillsdale, New Jersey, USA

Company:

Bigel / Mailer Films

Quotes:

Emily:Fitting in with the outside world, respectability, suitability, conformity, were never high on my priority list; neither was normalcy. I admit: I cultivated arrogance. The world would be our school; I wanted to learn it and teach it to you.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Making 'Loverboy' (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

Life On Mars?

heartbreakingly beautiful

Loverboy brilliantly lays parental love out on the table for all of us to observe in two of its twisted, unbalanced forms. The first is that of young Emily's parents, played sublimely by both director Kevin Bacon, and Marisa Tomei, who think that parenting consists of modeling love by bathing together with the door open and constantly cuddling in front of the child, as though she would be nurtured by having a pair of super-sexed hippie babysitters for guardians. The two are a riot, as is Sosie Bacon, playing with her real-life dad, a girl who sings a Bowie song in a school show in order to shock her parents into caring about her. These flashbacks are intricately woven together with the scenes of the adult Emily, played by Bacon's real wife, Kyra Sedgwick, as she raises her six-year-old Paul (Dominic Scott Kay) on her own, calling him Loverboy. Master Kay holds his own as the increasingly suffocated son, trying to escape his mother's web of the other kind of unbalanced love, being kept "safe" and "smart" and unsullied by society. We feel deeply for Paul, hoping that he will be allowed to stay in school as Emily descends heartbreakingly into madness, fearful that the school is poisoning her child. We pray that Matt Dillon, as a friendly fisherman, will be allowed to take Paul for a "boys only" fishing trip, but even then, the desperate Emily stands on the shore screaming at them to be safe while they're trying to have a few bonding moments together. The movie moves and looks like a dream, and like a dream, it has an explosive, cathartic ending that you have to wake up from. The Bacons in every way have put together a searing work of art, beautifully acted, shot and mounted, that should haunt anyone who can identify with its universally tragic themes.