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The Golden Boys

2008 · 1h 37m · PG Comedy, Romance
Directed by Daniel Adams

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Overview

Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ad in a Boston newspaper. The loser of a coin toss must get married and take in the other two as boarders. But upon the arrival of the Nantucket woman selected from the applicants, the captains get cold feet.

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28%
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It seems particularly perverse to take actors who helped develop the '60's thesping style of hang-loose, semi-improvisational immediacy and stick them in a creaky period piece glazed with arch gentility and ersatz quaintness.

Ronnie Scheib, Variety
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This musty yarn would have worked better as a 1940s MGM programmer.

Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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The Golden Boys is an object lesson in how to squander a seasoned cast, a charming premise and a breathtaking location.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten

Trying to sit through The Golden Boys is like trudging across the Cape Cod sand in galoshes during a nor'easter with a mule on your back.

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Rotten

Aside from the occasional magical shot or affecting actor moment, it's a film whose poverty betrays most every frame.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

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