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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Boys on the Side   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Boys On The Side is a 1995 US drama film directed by Herbert Ross and written by Don Roos.
Left-hand side and right-hand side of an equation In symmetric.
Boys on the Side is a curious concoction: a mixture of road film and female buddy picture that comes across as a primer in piecing together cliches.
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 Boys On The Side   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Love, With `Boys on the Side' / Breakthrough women's film
``Boys on the Side'' is that, but only for a while and only to an extent.
As a film about women, ``Boys on the Side'' feels as authentic as ``Thelma and Louise,'' so it comes as a surprise to find that it was written and directed by men.
But if I ever had doubts, they've been erased in ``Boys on the Side.'' Her performance is so full, invested and heartfelt that there is never any doubt that Jane is completely in love, and that only her dignity and a middle-aged understanding of the world are keeping her from spilling over.
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 Boys on the Side . Tucson Weekly . 02-09-95
Boys on the Side begins in snowy New York City, with nightclub singer Whoopi Goldberg belting out a throaty Janis Joplin tune.
Boys on the Side isn't shy about its status as a women's movie, and director Herbert Ross and screenwriter Don Roos don't hesitate to push all the buttons they can.
Boys on the Side pulls out all the stops with its ending, which culminates with Goldberg singing Parker a tear-tugging rendition of Roy Orbison's "You Got It." But there's a magic to the way the movie pulls together a sense of family, friendship and love--for once, the concoction has been mixed just right.
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 village voice > film > by David Winner
A couple of decades later he became a lead "boy" in the life of my great-aunt, one of the two elderly gay men who dined with her weekly as she headed through her nineties and beyond, almost blind, almost deaf, and eventually almost senile.
The boys first got to know my aunt when she was already in her eighties but had a good decade of her generous storytelling.
There was the unfortunate case of a much, much younger boy, a hustler, freelance writer, and meth addict avant la lettre, who played my aunt's piano for her, dined with her, loved her in his own way, no doubt, but grew gradually more blatant in his stealing from her.
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 ‘Boys on the Side’ (R)
Men achieve the status of salad dressing in "Boys on the Side," an engagingly acted, likable, fried green "Thelma & Louise." A bosom buddy movie with a take-'em-or-leave-'em slant, it doesn't bash the testosterone-enhanced -- except for one guy, with a baseball bat.
In the end, "Boys on the Side" is reassuring for citizens of this multi-ethnic society.
Boys on the Side is rated R for profanity, nudity and violence.
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 Boys on the Side - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boys on the Side is a film about friendship, written by Don Roos and directed by Herbert Ross.
The film was made in 1995 and stars Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore, Matthew McConaughey, James Remar, and Billy Wirth.
However, Jane has a secret crush on Robin, Holly falls in love with and confesses to a local police officer (McConaughey).
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 IMDb user comments for Boys on the Side (1995)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
'Boys on the side' is a very touching movie that looks essentially at what it means to be a woman, trapped inside a man's world.
The three main girls in 'Boys on the side' include the 'lesbo' Jane (Whoppi Goldberg), Robin (well acted by the talented Mary-Louise Parker), who is being helped to drive across America by Jane, and the fun loving and partly liberated Holly (Drew Barrymore).
With a cleverly incorporated soundtrack, 'Boys on the side', is a movie that we can all learn from, to try and improve not only our friendships that we have, but how we live our lives in a world that can be cruel, harsh and unfair.
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 Review: Boys on the Side   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
With antecedents like Thelma and Louise, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Steel Magnolias, Boys on the Side is the latest film to look beneath the surface of women's bonding.
Boys on the Side has an affinity for observing the obvious.
The single most welcome element of Boys on the Side is the development of the relationship between Jane and Robin.
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 deseretnews.com - Movie review: Boys on the Side | Deseret Morning News Web edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Whoopi Goldberg is at her most appealing in "Boys On the Side," but the film is, sadly, a terribly uneven affair, a soap opera-comedy that is at its best in the first third or so, as a "Thelma & Louise"-style road comedy.
There are some very funny comic adventures in the early stages of "Boys on the Side," and some feel-good moments as the members of this unlikely trio learn to trust each other.
"Boys on the Side" is rated R for violence, sex, nudity, profanity, vulgarity and marijuana smoking.
www.deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,234,00.html   (400 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Boys on the Side [IMPORT]: Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Herbert Ross' "Boys on the Side" is a road trip film with a different perspective.
"Boys on the Side" is a road trip film with such a depressing low at its conclusion that any joy found along the way is seriously muted.
"Boys on the Side" is about the strong bond of friendship and how this strong bond helps friends to deal with the sad realization that life is difficult and unfair.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CR9Q   (1445 words)

  
 ‘Boys on the Side’ (R)
In "Boys On the Side," a three-sister variation on "Thelma & Louise," road pals Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew "I'm okay now, really" Barrymore head for points west, with manslaughter behind 'em and nothing but new world utopia ahead.
Anyone, for instance, who would direct Whoopi to sing the Carpenters' "Close to You" without irony, and in a voice more wavery than a panicked 911 caller, needs to have his artistic sensibilities strenuously road-tested.
BOYS ON THE SIDE (R) -- Contains nudity, profanity and situations that could induce aesthetic convulsions.
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 Boys on the Side
After that, it seemed that she had gotten her film exhibitionism out of her system, and she kept 'em sheathed for a long time.
This time i'ts the girl-bonding classic Boys on the Side, our last clear topless peek at Drew.
Boys on the Side is rated 5.9 by guys at IMDb, and 6.7 by women.
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 Boys on the side
The film "Boys on the side" by Herbert Ross is an example of a ‘road movie’ which focuses on gender and depicts three different types of female characters who for various reasons decide to get to the roads.
At the end I would like to underline that the three types of women presented in the film do not correspond directly to the stereotypes that the majority of the society shares.
I also think that the director of "Boys on the side" shows that reality may be much different from the general image of the ‘different’.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Boys On The Side (xhtml)
The very last shot in "Boys on the Side" is of an empty room.
The difficult emotional scenes in "Boys on the Side" belong to Goldberg and Parker, but it is Barrymore whose spirit somehow draws them together into a family.
The reviews for "Boys on the Side" will mention "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "Thelma and Louise," because it shares their assorted themes: female bonding, unexpressed love, women on the run.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19950203/REVIEWS/502030301/1023   (882 words)

  
 Boys portrays bittersweet, unconventional love story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In one scene during Boys on the Side, a man asks a woman why two adults can no longer have fun, get drunk, and then have great and carefree sex.
Only from far away, Boys on the Side plays like diffuse tragedy - it's a shame, because the movie has some good things to say when it isn't tangling itself in a gender-independence agenda presupposed by the film's title.
Though Boys on the Side begins with a cross-country road trip that captures a sense of female bonding and liberation, its core about relationships and vulnerability carefully cradle genuinely warm scenes between Goldberg and Parker.
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 Justin's Koool Pages: Boys On The Side
Anyone familiar with Herbert Ross's work won't be disappointed with his film Boys On The Side.
Boys on The Side is the 90's version of Ross's Steel Magnolias: Just as Sally Field, Julia Roberts, and the rest of the cast came together in times of crisis, these three come to realize that the bonds between women are stronger than any of life's problems.
Nevertheless, Boys On The Side has its flaws: its plot is exaggerated and its dialogue is too witty.
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Put together powerhouse talent like the brilliant Mary-Louise Parker, the hilarious Whoopi Goldberg, and the sweet Drew Barrymore, and you have "Boys On The Side": Cinema Gold.
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Boys on the Side SCENE 1 JANE Thank you.
And, I want two kids, a boy and a girl, in that order, and a soap box colonial with three bedrooms, a sun porch, a stairway with a white banister, and a convertible den.
Between me and everybody else there's all this space all the time and it gets bigger and bigger and...I'm on one side, you know...and, I'm screaming and the one person I think I'm holding is afraid of it, too.
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 City Pages - Boys on the Side   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Whoever she is, the playwright was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Keely and Du, which debuted in 1993 at the Humana Festival.
The first, played by Glynn Turman with a ragged voice and a disarming smile, is a middle-aged preacher whose life has been on a slow slide since his eldest son was murdered in a school shooting.
Good Boys is three-quarters a magnificent play, and one-quarter utter nonsense, and that superfluous quarter should have been excised.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Napoleon Bonaparte
On the other hand, though Bonaparte had at first been extremely irritated by the allocution of 24 May, 1802, in which Pius VII demanded the revision of the Organic Articles, he ended by allowing it to be published in the "Moniteur" as a diplomatic document.
The proclamation of Bonaparte as consul for life (August, 1802) increased in him the sense of his responsibility towards the religion of the country, and in Pius VII the desire to be on good terms with a personage who was advancing with such long strides towards omnipotence.
He favoured the revival of the Institute of the Christian Schools for the religious instruction of boys; side by side with the lycées, he permitted secondary schools under the supervision of the prefects, but directed by ecclesiastics.
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 sparklingdiamond dot net - Boys on the Side   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
So one minute we're laughing at Robyn's misunderstood gestures to Holly as she tries to communicate across busy traffic that Nick is dead, the next we're somberly watching in a hospital as Jane waits to find out why Robyn collapsed and if she's going to be OK.
It is also one of the best women-oriented films I have seen for a long time, and please note, I don't call it a 'chick flick', partly because I hate that phrase (its so dismissive) but mostly because Boys on the Side is more than a 'chick flick'.
It isn't just a film *for* women, it's a film a*bout* women, and life, and friendship, and most importantly, it isn't centred around them living in a big city and worried about dating.
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 Buy.com - Boys On The Side - Soundtrack - CD
The soundtrack of BOYS ON THE SIDE includes songs recorded by top female pop, rock and alternative artists.
Speaking of the Grammy-winning Crow, she blasts through a spirited version of Derek & The Dominos' "Keep On Growing." Standing on their own material are powerhouse diva Annie Lennox (who contributes a confessional epic, "Why") and the Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan.
BOYS ON THE SIDE is a good indication of the healthy state of women in rock 'n' roll, especially when you consider that the artists on this album garnered fifteen 1995 Grammy nominations among them.
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 Boys on the Side
Jimmy was a wild one, but his spirit matched Lou's so well, a stranger once observed that she'd be woman enough to ride side by side with Jimmy.
Having dressed like a boy for so long and only having known abuse while dressed as a woman, Lou very much enjoyed being admired and treated as the true lady she was.
And although Lou was oblivious to the fact the boy had a crush on her for a very long time, Jesse fell very hard for Lou.
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 Boys on the Side   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Collected Sounds - Boys on the Side
CD Reviews - These will be reviews of men only, if there are women who play a strong part in the band, they will be found in the regular review section.
I realize there is still a ways to go, as the music industry is sometimes still a boys club.
But I also know many women don't like to be designated as a female musician, but rather just "musician" and I didn't like stepping on those toes either.
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 Boys on the Side: IRED
BOYS ON THE SIDE (1995) is a poignant story of three women who inevitably wind up together driving cross-country a la "Thelma and Louise" style.
Two kids, a boy and a girl...in that order.
I want a Saltbox Colonial with 3 bedrooms, a sunporch, a stairway with a white banister and a convertible den." One might find it sadly ironic that although she could not achieve her own personal American Dream, she nevertheless aids others in their pursuit of it.
www.ired.com /news/oscar/boys.htm   (686 words)

  
 BOYS ON THE SIDE (An Illusion review by Joan Ellis.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Take a bunch of traditional elements, add a 90s twist, give it a shake, and you have "Boys on the Side." It is a road movie with a love affair, an illness, and relationship problems, but this time around the disease is AIDS, and the love affair is between two women.
Once in Tucson, the movie shifts abruptly to a leaden focus on the serious problems each has brought from her old life.
The sad side of comedy is usually implicit and doesn't need to be hammered home as it is here.
www.joanellis.com /reviews/BOYS_ON_THE_SIDE.htm   (516 words)

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