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Boys on the Side
1995
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3.5
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4.4
Its an original, and what it does best is show how strangers can become friends, and friends can become like family.
Rogerebert
3.5
The movie pulls over like a stalled 16 wheeler as screenwriter Don Roos celebrates the stark differences between his walking, talking cliches.
3.5
The road movie settles into a messy domestic drama that some will find touching and others downright cloying.
4.5
It would have been easy to wring copious tears from the role, but Parker plays it with a proud stoicism that elicits admiration rather than pity.
3.8
Yet there is nothing especially hip about the films sensibility.Its just wonderfully humane.
San Francisco Chronicle
2.5
Perhaps that is a formula for making money.This movie can boast Goldberg in good form as her usual wise and world weary self, Parker showing signs of ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.5
It is a delight to watch Whoopi Goldberg, Mary Louise Parker, and Drew Barrymore tackle the idiosyncrasies of these colorful characters.Director Herbe ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.1
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
2.5
But when it becomes a lecture on AIDS and tolerance and worse, a courtroom drama the film sinks into bathos.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.0
A look at the Laugh Factorys Comedy Camp, which for more than 30 years has offered a place for at risk kids and otherwise to try their hand at stand u ..
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