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- Release Date: 2007
- Runtime: 105 min
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Starring: Joseph Bologna, Dyan Cannon, Len Cariou, Sally Kellerman ... see all
- Director: Susan Seidelman
- Plot: A romantic comedy about our amazing capacity to rebound and fall in love at any age. Lois, Harry, Marilyn ,Sandy and Jack live in an "Active Adult" community in Boynton... Read more
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The Age
A strong cast bring confidence, presence and experience to fairly lightweight material.
Recently bereaved Jack (Len Cariou) is wooed by the somewhat enigmatic Sandy (Sally Kellerman), while Joseph Bologna's Harry plays the field.
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The Cinema Source
F. Scott Fitzgerald once claimed that American lives had no second acts; the characters in The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club , the new geriatric sex comedy situated in that lovely old folks area near Boca Raton, try to prove him wrong.
Marilyn ( Brenda Vaccaro ) is learning to cope with the rage and anger that comes after her husband is run down by an obnoxious old lady on a cell phone.
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James Berardinelli's Reviews
The problem with the film is....All its characters are hale and healthy.....Boynton Beach Club lacks the wit of Something's Gotta Give and the emotional punch of Innocence ..... ... Full Review
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Harry's too-good-to-be-true Internet hook-up turns out to be a hooker -- keep "Boynton Beach Club" from being a first-rate movie
The movie is funny without disrespecting its characters.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Boynton Beach Club" almost certainly will divert and satisfy grown-ups old enough to understand that life becomes more precious with age and that the most successful seniors are those inclined to share good feelings in the way the characters do.
Jack (Len Cariou) loses his wife.
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Boynton Beach Club
dvdtown.com –
2007-02-10
This low-budget, limited-release film was originally titled "The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club," but the DVD marketers wisely chose to shorten the title so that it seems more evocative of the old "Beach Blanket" films and less of a downer. ... Full Article
"Boynton Beach Club" aims at an audience who, in Hollywood terms, would be better off dead. Set at an "active adult" community in Florida, the movie looks at love, loss and renewal among the senior set. ... Full Article
BOYNTON BEACH CLUB Rated:NR For movie details, please click here . As meandering as an old man in an Oldsmobile-and with more heart and respect than to use a stereotype like that-filmmaker Susan Seidelman marks a welcome return with her... ... Full Article