Synopsis
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.
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Cast
- Whoopi GoldbergJane Deluca
- Mary-Louise ParkerRobin
- Drew BarrymoreHolly Pulchik-Lincoln
- Matthew McConaugheyAbe Lincoln
- James RemarAlex
- Billy WirthNick
- Jude CiccolellaJerry
- Dennis BoutsikarisMassarelli
- Estelle ParsonsLouise
- Amy AquinoAnna
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
This movie is not a collection of parts from other films. It's an original, and what it does best is show how strangers can become friends, and friends can become like family. - 80
The New York Times
What matters more is that Ms. Goldberg, along with her co-stars Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore, is so sharp, funny and wholehearted that this film creates an unexpected groundswell of real emotion. - 80
Empire
There are no real surprises, and it's arguable whether three such disparate souls as these would, in reality, bond so well. But the acting is flawless, the principals fleshing out their characters far beyond their hastily sketched stereotypes. - 80
Los Angeles Times
It's so shamelessly obliging that just about every audience of whatever stripe will find something to like in it at least some of the time. It's a confoundingly enjoyable movie because, by all rights, it should be terrible. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Boys on the Side is surprisingly effective, although its narrative often advances awkwardly. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Its one flaw occurs when the film concocts a fake conflict between the women in an attempt to add some drama. The plot device doesn't do great damage, but it is enough to keep the film from being a hands-down four-star movie. - 63
ReelViews
The movie is generally entertaining, if only because the three primary characters capture the audience's sympathy, but the story doesn't contain much honest drama. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
Here he has Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore and James Remar to distract us from the depths to which Ross habitually stoops in the never-ending quest to reacquaint an audience with its cheapest emotions.
