Loverboy - love made to order
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Loverboy - love made to order |
| Original title | Loverboy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joan Micklin Silver |
| script |
Leslie Dixon , Tom Ropelewski , Robin Schiff |
| production |
Leslie Dixon , Gary Foster , Willie Hunt , Tom Ropelewski |
| music | Michel Colombier |
| camera | John Hora |
| cut | Rick Shaine |
| occupation | |
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Loverboy (OT: Loverboy) is an American comedy film from 1989 . Directed led Joan Micklin Silver , the writer wrote Leslie Dixon , Tom Ropelewski and Robin Schiff .
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The college student Randy Bodek has to earn the money for another year due to poor school performance and takes a job as a pizza delivery man. He happened to meet a department store owner after being turned away by another woman. She becomes his lover and later recommends him to her friends for this kind of accommodation. Randy begins a career as a gigolo .
In college, Randy met Jenny Gordon, who was the same age and with whom he fell in love. Meanwhile, his father Joe Bodek mistakenly assumes that his son is homosexual . He reveals his suspicions to his business partner Harry Bruckner, for whom he is building a warehouse. Joe's wife Diane suspects, based on random comments, that her husband is cheating on her. So she asks about the voices in the background when Joe tries to control a burst pipe on the construction site. She interprets the casual answer from a couple of hookers as if her husband was having fun with the women. Diane receives the pizzeria phone number and the code word for love services from one of her friends.
Randy sees one night in a nightmare that the husband of one of the customers is abusing him. The next evening Harry Bruckner, whose wife Kyoko is seducing Randy, comes home unexpectedly early. Harry suspects that Randy can barely escape.
Harry Bruckner seeks a doctor whom he takes to be his wife's lover. After clarification, the men visit another suspect, the fitness trainer Claude Delancy. Weeping, he confesses that his wife is cheating on him - the three men continue their research.
Randy wants to get out, but his friend, who takes the orders, persuades him to do one last job. In a motel he sees his own mother and escapes before he can be recognized. A substitute who wants to stand in for Randy appears. Diane now changes her mind and says she is a married woman. She is going to celebrate her wedding anniversary that evening. The substitute lover, inflamed for them, pursues them halfway through the city in order to attract their interest.
A boy wants to win Jenny over and tells her about Randy's sideline. Randy challenges him on the sidelines of the wedding reception. Just as the boys are fighting in a parking lot, Bruckner, Delancy and the doctor appear. Bruckner says he heard from Randy's father that Randy was gay. Instead of him, the three men beat up the other boy, whom they believe to be the supposed love servant.
Diane reconciles with Joe and Jenny forgives Randy. Randy introduces his girlfriend to the parents. Bruckner and the two other men want to beat Randy, the police appear. The men damage the police car. The doctor and the fitness trainer reconcile with their partners, who get the men out of custody on bail. Only Kyoko takes the chance. She appears at the station, but changes her mind and leaves no bail.
Reviews
Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote in the Chicago Reader that Patrick Dempsey was miscast in the tolerable comedy. Like most American sex comedies, the film is puritanical .
The magazine TV direkt 14/2006 scoffed: With extra cheese .
Web links
- Loverboy - Love to order in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Loverboy - Love Made to Order at Rotten Tomatoes (English)