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Boynton Beach Club

2006, Movie, NR, 105 mins

Boynton Beach Club: Review

BOYNTON BEACH CLUB | BOYNTON BEACH BEREAVEMENT CLUB
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Susan Seidelman's sweet-natured, episodic comedy-drama about life and love in a planned Florida development for "active seniors" offers fine actors and actresses of a certain age the opportunity to step out of supporting roles and back into the spotlight. Marilyn (Brenda Vaccaro) and her husband are enjoying their retirement in the Boynton Beach sun until he's run down by a blowsy bawd (Renee Taylor) backing out of her driveway while yammering on a cell phone. The devastated Marilyn knows she doesn’t want to live with her children, but can't imagine what she's going to do with the rest of her life, until she drops into a meeting of the Boynton Beach Bereavement Club (the film's original title). She doesn't plan to come back, but live wire Lois (Dyan Cannon) takes Marilyn under her social-minded wing and draws her out of her grieving shell. At the same time, Lois finds a new beau in the considerably younger Donald (Michael Nouri), though their romance is very nearly derailed by a silly misunderstanding. Marilyn's path back to life intersects with those of three other club members: Recent widower Jack (Len Cariou) is still actively mourning his late wife, but slowly re-enters the dating world after the forthright, dignified Sandy (Sally Kellerman) makes the first move. Jack's mentor, ladies' man Harry (Joseph Bologna), talks a good player game but would really just like to meet a nice woman. Along the way, they all negotiate variations on the same pitfalls that bedevil youngsters: indiscreet pharmacists, the pitfalls of online dating, getting the dirt on porn, meddling relatives, miscommunication, the ramifications of petty deception and the infinitely mysterious moods and mores of the opposite sex. Based on stories collected by her mother, Florence, in her own Boynton Beach-like community, Seidelman's film has the unhurried, digressive rhythm of retired life and errs on the side of gentle uplift without making light of the very real pain that attends aging and bereavement. It's a pleasure to see veterans Cariou, Bologna, Vaccaro, Kellerman and Cannon back in the limelight (though Cannon is the victim of excessive plastic surgery and looks more than a little alarming in close-up), and many of the supporting players get small but gracious opportunities to shine as well. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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