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A Relative Thing (2003)
An Average Drama, if too devastating
While I agree with the reviewer below, (the acting was top notch, especially Marie Rubin) I found the pacing of the film incredibly and awfully slow. They could of edited this film way better!!! The cinematography was excellent, if boring at times. The story was, well, depressing and sappy at times. I could see this being bought as an Lifetime TV film, for thats what it feels like. It never really lets up.Its not intense, but its just depressing. The film really doesn't try to catch your attention, and lags. In the beginning it starts really cheerful and you think it is going to be a family film. Then it goes through not one, but two turns for the worse. Then there is family drama of the past thrown in and the current drama mixes together and your end for a long movie. At least it haves a bittersweet ending.
Loverboy (2005)
Horrible...Just Horrible
I too saw this at the Phoenix Film Festival and while Kyra Sedgewick's acting was above average, I found the plot utterly confusing, and just plain out gross. The story followed this woman who is so obsessed with her son that she treats him like her lover. Hence the title "loverboy" I guess. It tries really hard to try to connect her childhood into this whole mess of a story, but fails to execute and deliver. When she was a little girl she had mean parents and was fat. Then they try to put Sandra Bulloch into it implying she was something special to her. This is all told through recurring dreams she haves. I barely walked out of the theater. The acting was pretty good, I guess. Kyra Sedgewick was really good for most of the time. sometimes she acted so well it was scary. And sometimes she acted so bad, she was scary. The kid was good too, although all he had to do was get mad all the time. Kevin Bacon and Marisa Tomei actually acted pretty well for her parents, being the comic relief. Matt Dillion, the fatherly guy to the kid, has done better and deserves better. Sandra Bulloch said nothing at all (WTF?!) she was just there. Technically, the cinematography was pretty average, no real interesting shots or anything. The editing is probably the second worst thing next to the story and the story is really really bad. They could of spent way more time editing this better. It could of made the story better, not worse! The only reason I stayed in the theater was to see Kevin Bacon afterward. I was going to give him some advice. Don't ever direct another movie again. 'Cause every time Mr. Bacon directs something, someone in the six degrees of you dies! So stick to acting, Kevin. For all our sakes!