Main Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Blair Brown, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt
Release Year: 2004
Country: US
Run Time: 86 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
A mother once neglected as child but possessed of a heart overflowing with love grows increasingly despondent as her beloved child begins to claim his independence in director Kevin Bacon's adaptation of Victoria Redel's best-selling novel. If loving too much were a crime, well-meaning but overbearing mother Emily (Kyra Sedgwick) would be spending life behind bars with no hope of parole. When Emily was a child, her parents were deeply in love with one another but tragically indifferent to their affection-starved daughter. Now a grown adult with a deep-rooted desire to bear a child, Emily goes to desperate lengths to conceive before eventually giving birth to an exceptionally gifted boy whom she names Paul. Emily's devotion to Paul burns brighter than a thousand suns as she creates a wondrous world of books, music, art, and games to share with her growing child, but her ever more desperate attempts to preserve the purity of their relationship reach a frantic fever pitch as a kindhearted local man opens his life to the pair and Paul prepares for his first year of school. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Campbell Scott - Paul's Father; Marisa Tomei - Sybil Stoll; Dominic Scott Kay - Paul; Sosie Bacon - Child Emily; Jessica Stone - Anita Biddle; John La Fayette - Allen Rawley; Melissa Errico - Miss Silken; Nancy Giles - Principal; Sandra Bullock - Mrs. Harker
Credit
Phyllis Huffman - Casting, John Dunn - Costume Designer, Vebe Borge - First Assistant Director, Kevin Bacon - Director, David Ray - Editor, John Thompson - Executive Producer, Danny Dimbort - Executive Producer, Andrew Rosen - Executive Producer, Trevor Short - Executive Producer, Gerald Barad - Executive Producer, Andrew Lang - Executive Producer, Michael Bacon - Composer (Music Score), William Derella - Musical Direction/Supervision, Chris Shriver - Production Designer, Nancy Schreiber - Cinematographer, Kevin Bacon - Producer, Kyra Sedgwick - Producer, Avi Lerner - Producer, Michael Mailer - Producer, Daniel Bigel - Producer, Joe Caterini - Sound Editor, Hannah Shakespeare - Screenwriter, Victoria Redel - Book Author
Loverboy is a 2005 dramatic film. It was directed by Kevin Bacon and the cast includes his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, as well as both of their children, Travis and Sosie. Thus far, it is the only film credit for both the children.
The story starts off with Kyra Sedgwick's character, Emily, narrating about having the perfect child (after having sexual intercourse with several men). Then Paul was born, named after one of the men who had sex with Emily (although she calls her son "Loverboy"). Several flashbacks of Emily's childhood follow. This entire time, Emily is with Paul in her car, which is sitting parked inside their garage. After Paul goes to sleep, Emily then overdoses on pills and turns on the engine of the car in an attempt to suffocate both of them. The next morning, they are found by the boy who mows their lawn. Emily is dead, but Paul survives. At the end, a teenaged Paul, accompanied by his girlfriend, whispers into a sheep's ear, just as Emily did with Paul, saying the exact same line: "When you are afraid, there's room for opportunities".
