Loverboy (2005)

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Movie
German title Loverboy
Original title Loverboy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Kevin Bacon
script Hannah Shakespeare
production Kevin Bacon,
Daniel Bigel ,
Michael Mailer ,
Kyra Sedgwick
music Michael Bacon
camera Nancy Schreiber
cut David Ray
occupation

Loverboy (alternate title: gentle violence ) is an American drama film directed by Kevin Bacon from 2005. The main role was played by Kyra Sedgwick .

The story is based on a novel by Victoria Redel of the same name and is about a mother's exaggerated love for her only child, which makes her paranoid and drives her to suicide.

action

Emily Stoll was emotionally neglected as a child by her parents Marty and Sybil . When her father falls ill, her parents commit suicide together, leaving their daughter alone. So she grew up with Mrs. Harker, the neighbor who was a very caring foster mother to her.

Emily is now financially independent, but extremely depressed. She is desperately trying to get pregnant and has sexual intercourse with all kinds of men. After a miscarriage, she finally wants to give up, but fate finally means well and she becomes pregnant. Emily has a son whom she is now raising alone. From then on she puts Paul at the center of her life. She isolates him from other people and does not want him to go to school at first. In order to be particularly close to him, both of them often sleep in a tent or in the car. On vacation before starting school, she meets a geologist whom Paul regards as a father figure. That bothers Emily at first, but she also sees this as a welcome opportunity to keep Paul away from school by staying longer at the vacation spot. When he does go to school, she can't stand him adapting and making friends. She tries to regain his dwindling attention and, due to invented allergies, often reports him to school as sick in order to take him on excursions. The teachers quickly figure it out and point out that she is insane and paranoid .

One evening she spent the night in the car again with Paul, but this time in the closed garage with the engine running to kill both of them with the exhaust fumes. Emily dies, but Paul manages to climb out of the car. However, he collapses in front of the car, where he is found by the neighbor the next morning. He lives and will get well again.

background

Loverboy is strongly influenced by the actor couple Bacon / Sedgwick. Kyra Sedgwick and husband Kevin Bacon served as producers, she herself starred and Bacon directed. Her two children, Sosie Bacon and Travis Bacon also play and Bacon's brother contributed the score. Guest appearances were taken on by the befriended actors Matt Dillon and Sandra Bullock. The film was shown in cinemas in the USA from June 16, 2006. In Germany, the film was available on DVD from June 21, 2007.

Reviews

  • Kyle Smith praised the direction of Kevin Bacon, who made his debut in this capacity, in the New York Post .
  • Carina Chocano certified the film as "humor" and "energy" in the Los Angeles Times .

Kai Vollbrecht writes at Zelluloid.de: “Actor Kevin Bacon has made a good directorial debut with this literary film adaptation. He knows how to impressively showcase beautiful places, beautiful and difficult interpersonal relationships and, above all, his own wife. The scenes from the 1970s, in which he also appears as an actor, perfectly match the timbre. "

At Moviesection.de, Thomas Ays judges positively and awards all five possible stars. He praised Bacon's directorial debut and said that he “tackled and implemented it very impressively”. “It has turned out to be an impressive and extraordinary portrait of a different woman that one cannot easily judge and wave through. At least one should deal socially with the approaches of her figure. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Loverboy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2007 (PDF; test number: 109 596 DVD).
  2. ↑ Film review: Loverboy - mother love extreme - sneak film - cinema with a difference. In: sneakfilm.de. Retrieved January 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Kai Vollbrecht: Loverboy - love madness death. In: Zelluloid.de. September 15, 2007, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 29, 2018 .
  4. ^ Go-to- market dates on Internet Movie Database , accessed February 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ Thomas Ays : Loverboy. In: Moviesection. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on August 18, 2019 .