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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790741826
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790741822
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 27, 1999
Running Time: 117 minutes
Sales Rank: 7009
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 03, 1995
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This female-bonding film takes your basic soap opera and twists it inside out. Although director Herbert Ross draws superb performances from his actresses, he occasionally wallows in that maudlin, Hollywood melodrama in which close-ups are crucial. Remember, this is the man who directed Steel Magnolias. However, Ross also does something you don't expect: he makes you fall in love with his characters. Whoopi Goldberg is a down-on-her luck singer who hopes to start over in Los Angeles. Mary-Louise Parker is the realtor whose life is going nowhere. After Goldberg answers Parker's ad in the paper for a companion to drive to LA, these two completely different women grudgingly find themselves emotionally involved. Drew Barrymore enters the picture on the first leg of the trip when Goldberg insists on visiting her. After battling with her drug-dealing boyfriend, the flighty, sexy Barrymore throws in with them. During their trek west, the women learn to take life as it lands on them while recognizing true friendship. The film is enlightened in that it accepts the complications and blurred family ties of the '90s. At the heart of the story is the realization that people can expand past expected boundaries. The movie gels in other areas as well. The all-female soundtrack is powerful and works to underscore, not overpower, certain scenes. The same can be said of the supporting cast, specifically Anita Gillette and James Remar. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Boys left on the side of the road to rot like some old high line pole
Boys on the Side tantalizes with an intriguing cast and concept. Though you might get to see a little bit of what Letterman saw on his birthday, mostly the movie doesn't deliver.
What you do get is kind of a female buddy/road picture that morphs into an AIDS picture. It takes that and the other serious issue of domestic violence, but doesn't really handle either one well. Still, there are some surprising and unexpected moments that do work, and it is hard not to like Drew Barrymore, ... Read More
Rating:  - You could have been Donna Reid in another life!
Excellent movie is all I can say. The movie opens with Whoopi Goldberg as a musician in a club with not a lot of appreciation. When a member of her band realizes the club doesnt want them to perform there anymore, she realizes she needs a different plan. With her stubborn humor and her way or the highway attitude, she goes it alone. She answers an ad by Mary Louise Parker to drive cross country to California where both women plan to start a different existence, for very different reasons. Along the ... Read More
Rating: - "I am not going over a cliff for you two"
So says gruff Jane at the start of the road trip, but by the end you get the feeling that she would do it. This movie is about three women and their friendship, love, betrayal, joy, heartache, survival, and life. It is a drama with some lighter moments, like when Holly's baby is born (with dark skin) and Abe looks over at Jane. Matthew McConaughey plays super-dimwitted cop Abe Lincoln (haha). Robin provides most of the drama, she has a lot of skeletons in her closet but finds happiness in the end. Mary ... Read More
Rating: - A guilty pleasure for me, always end up watching this
I think this film qualifies primarily as a "chick flick", at least according to every man who has ever watched this with me. Maybe there are some of you guys out there reading this who'll disagree. Feel free to chime in, preferably in the comments section.
This is one of my favorite films but it is the kind of film that is a guilty pleasure. I can't seem to avoid watching it when I catch it on television but I am always left wondering WHY I find it so addictive.
Is it because ... Read More
Rating: - You get whoever you end up with
"Boys on the Side" really isn't the hip chick flick road trip film I'd expected. It's a lot more.
The story originates with Jane (Goldberg) and Robin (Parker) joining forces to make a cross-country road trip from New York to California. They have nothing in common--Robin is totally white bread and likes the Carpenters. Whoopi sings Janis Joplin in a nightclub.
They stop to visit Holly (Barrymore), a friend of Jane's in Pittsburgh and find her in serious straits with her druggie ... Read More
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