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Summary: yawn...and nude basketball? puh-leez!
Review: A banal foray into that gym teacher thing...my gym teach sure didn't look as tired and depressed as this gal. The love scenes are awkward and although the spinning of the camera during the nude basketball/love scene was evidently trying to be artsy it induced a whirling-dervish sort of seasickness. If you want a hot b-ball scene watch the last ten minutes of "bar girls" also a banal stupid movie but much more worth the wait.
Why can't there be better erotic lesbian films out there!
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Summary: Good movie with some slow scenes
Review: Alright what I liked about the movie.
1. The two main characters were interesting. I liked seeing two middle aged women acting like hormonal teenagers. The early scenes between the two were funny and heartwarming.
2. There was more then one bedroom scene. To call them sex scenes would be slightly wrong. You didn't actually see the sex but you did see them together in bed talking like lovers. I liked that. Too many movies have one big love scene and thats it. I simply like to see two grown women having a passionate affair.
3. The husband/ex-husband. I liked him. He was a nice guy who seemed to be at a loss for why his wife fell in love with a woman. He had two really good scenes. One with the woman who stole his wife and at the end of the movie where he tried to expain why the two women got fired... I've read a few reviews that said he was unrealistic, and maybe he was, but I've heard stories about men who acted like him. Yeah they got angry but in end they were still nice guys.
What I didn't like.
1. The daughter. Don't know why. She just got on my nerves.
2. The ending. Don't know either. Just got on my nerves.
3. Some diaglog was awkard. Some characters were awkward.All in all I'd give the movie a B. Better then some. Worse then others. But definitly a good movie to watch.
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Summary: wow....this is the way it happens!
Review: Falling in love with a woman, for the first time in mid-life, as many of us have experienced, is an astonishing occurrence. LATE BLOOMERS shows this to be true by including large doses of engaging tenderness and realistic scenes of stark honesty. In this film there are no women wearing slinky dresses, seducing one another in a pseudo-romantic Hollywood setting. Instead, Late Bloomers portrays finding love, and finding it just around the corner, all as it often happens. Quite unexpectedly, the lovers discover one another, and find the closeness and romance previously missing from their past involvements. One of the women is married, so if you first fell in love with a woman when married with children; you will appreciate the character's struggles and those of her family. However, alls well that ends well and this is without a doubt what this film portrays. LATE BLOOMERS is believable, with fine acting and a great story line. The women who play the roles of the two lovers are perfect, uninhibited in their lovemaking; funny, tender, and even sometimes fearful; yet always finding a way to stay the course together. LATE BLOOMERS creates an entirely possible story and presents it by using, not only some drama, but also a great deal of humor. Buy this film. You will absolutely adore it.
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Summary: You'd be sill not to see this movie.
Review: First of all, Lisa Peterson was not 28 when she made the the movie, she was 22. This movie is one of the best films I have seen, which have been able to prove that there is nothing wrong with homosexual relationships. It shows that anyone could discover there sexuality, even after marriage and kids. If you havent seen this movie yet I serously encourage you to get this movie.
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Summary: surprisingly funny yet poignant tale
Review: I caught this merely by accident on cinemax late one night...i thought it rang true as to how 2 women might fall in love and as to the repercussions of such a union might affect the community around them...all in all, very entertaining and believable with kudos all around for the acting involved...particularly the actress who portrayed Carly...
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Summary: And this is America.
Review: I saw this movie during an HBO free preview one Sunday afternoon, during a time when children could watch pornographic nudity portrayed by two homosexual women. It has really become a sad day in America where "it is okay" and soon so will "beastiality." God help us all.
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Summary: Tasteful, interesting treatment of a controversial subject
Review: Late Bloomers is a love story with a twist: a married woman, an office assistant at a high school, falls in love with the girls basketball coach at the same school. When the married woman leaves her husband to move in with the coach, the townspeople begin talking. I was surprised that, by the end of the film, I had totally accepted the "marriage" of the couple as plausible and even tastefully-done. I did, however, feel that the nude-basketball-at-midnight scenes were overdone. Brilliant acting by the two female leads, and interesting performances by supporting players. Well worth a viewing, but be warned: Late Bloomers just might change your mind about same-sex marriage.
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Summary: A sweet, endearing movie
Review: Late Bloomers is a lovely story of two people finding each other, paralelled by the sub-plot of Jamie Hooper (Esteban Powell) and Val Lumpkin (Lisa Peterson), who learn more about love from their elders than they do from their wild gropings in the closet (and the classroom, and . . .). What pitifully dreary lives the people who dislike this film must lead!!
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Summary: Sweet Love Story
Review: Late Bloomers is an enjoyable sweet love story about two women who find love in the middle of life's journey. One woman, a school secretary, married with children, finds that her long marriage has died on the romantic vine many years ago. The other woman is a geometry teacher and girl's basketball coach who has never been in love. Through the learning and teaching of basketball, each woman finds in the other a love that they never thought they would find at this stage in their life.
I love that this movie portrays love and sex between two women who are not beautiful hard-bodied teenagers. It is fun however to see them react like giddy hormone driven teenagers in love's first blush. The actresses did an outstanding job playing two women awkward at love and there was a nice chemistry between them. I will never look at basketball the same way again and enjoyed the sport that plays as the platform for the women's romance.
The movie is meant to be part of the "feel good" genre so it is hard to criticize what appears to be unrealistic actions and reactions by some of the characters but I do have to say that the husband's reaction to his wife's new found love was quite implausible.
I would recommend this film to anyone who wants to see a lovely simple love story and would especially recommend it to anyone like myself who at middle age wants to see a semblance of their own life on screen.
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Summary: Well done Indie; sweet but not sacharine
Review: My wife and I enjoy seeing a bit of our lives onscreen, so we watch most of the Les/Bi/an themed movies that come to our attention. So many of them are trivial, and quite a few are offensively banal or worse, but we keep watching, waiting for a glimpse of our lives. Late Bloomers is a lovely story that gave us that glimpse at times. For an indie, the acting is very good, and the story is fairly well developed. The actors aren't models, yet Late Bloomers doesn't shy away from expressing their sexuality. The story touches on many stereotypes, but it doesn't feel preachy. The cookie crucifixion scene conveys societies' uproar, while holding on to a sense of humor. I enjoyed watching Late Bloomers, and would recommend it to a friend, but my wife loved it so much she wants to own a copy. After her second viewing she said she loves that even when life gets hard, all of the characters choose to handle their feelings with honesty and integrity. She also liked that the main characters don't let others dictate their attitude; They celebrate their love even when they think no one is coming to their wedding. My wife ranks this as one of her all time favorite lesbian movies. I'd rank it well above some much better known lesbian films.
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