Only the Lonely
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Movie Reviews of Only the Lonely
Movie Review: One of John Candy's best!
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, it's really extremely '80's in feel, but still a classic. If you liked Trains, Planes, and Automobiles, if you like John Candy, or if you can't stand your mother-in-law, this one is for you.Movie Review: He finally finds a girlfriend
Summary: 4 Stars
Then his mother visits, she hides behind him he is so big. His mother meets her, and all heck breaks loose!
Iys a funny love story.
Movie Review: GREAT MOVIE
Summary: 4 Stars
Just loved this movie. Try to watch it every time it comes back on.Movie Review: "Sometimes it's good to be a cop."
Summary: 3 Stars
In Only the Lonely, Danny Muldoon (played by John Candy) is a single Chicago cop with Catholic guilt, a racist mother, and about a million friends. When he meets Theresa Luna (played by Ally Sheedy), who applies cosmetics to the newly departed at the family's funeral home, viewers get to watch this relationship develop. However, when Danny's mother, Rose (played by Maureen O'Hara), finds out that Theresa is both Polish AND Italian, sparks fly.
This is not a slapstick comedy film, as you might expect with John Candy. It's a more serious film about loneliness, guilt, stereotypes, racism, and love. A side vignette is the romantic pursuit of Rose by her Greek neighbor, Nick Acropolis (played well by Anthony Quinn).
It's a film in the general style of boy meets girl, they fall in love after a number of stumbles, something happens and they break up, one or the other rethinks their life and goals, and they get back together. Is this just the human condition, or what we find entertaining?
One thing I didn't like about the movie was that Theresa Luna (Ally Sheedy), so cute and vulnerable at the beginning of the film, got much less loveable as the movie progressed.
A repeated line throughout the movie was "Sometimes it's good to be a cop." It worked well!
Movie Review: Only The Lonely
Summary: 3 Stars
Great movie. John Candy a man who realizes there's much more to life than being a Mama's boy. He found real love but also had to learn how to respect it and not feel guilty about it. Maureen O'Hara is unstoppable as one the the best actors we have ever had. Loved it.