Forever Lulu

R

2000

1 hr. 39 min.

Romance

Comedy

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56%

2,500+ Ratings

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After escaping from a San Francisco mental hospital, Lulu McAfee (Melanie Griffith) heads to Los Angeles to reunite with her long-lost love, Ben Clifton (Patrick Swayze). When she sees him, she reveals what she claims is the truth about the past: She gave birth to a son after their breakup, but put the baby up for adoption at the onset of her schizophrenia. The unstable Lulu then pressures Ben into taking a road trip with her to see their son on his 16th birthday.

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Lovely movie, Patrick is once again awesome, some tear jerking moments but a happy ending an nice gentle emotional moments, swayze doing what he does best :)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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sweetly appealing and heartfelt.anything but ordinary-it was nicely enjoyable to watch.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Frances H

I really liked this movie-the story was sweet, even if bittersweet in many ways. As someone who grew up with a parent who had bouts of mental illness, I can really relate to this story, and thought it was well-scripted and well acted by a really good cast. The movie had a sympathetic treatment of the mentally ill as people, who still have thoughts and feelings, hopes and dreams, just like anybody else with other kinds of illnesses, or even people without serious health problems, and I liked that about this film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/22/13

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Audience Member

This was so good I don't know why people say it isn't good.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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A movie from 2000 that is very good.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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People don't want to feel. They want to be entertained. A happily married television series writer is inauspiciously contacted by his schizophrenic ex-girlfriend from college. She tells him a tale of their son, that he never met, and giving their son up for adoption. The ex-girlfriend and writer head out on a mission to find their son. The writer's wife, skeptical of the ex-girlfriend's motives, follows them and gets into her own trouble. "Are you giving somebody a blowjob? You're not! Well, thank goodness." John Kaye delivers Forever Lulu in his only directorial picture. The storyline for this movie was better than I anticipated and I found the characters fascinating. The acting wasn't perfect or particularly great but the character development was still very good. The cast delivers mediocre performances and includes Patrick Swayze, Melanie Griffith, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lee Garlington, and Penelope Ann Miller. "For awhile we were so close that we only had one heart." I have been DVRing Joseph Gordon-Levitt pictures lately and decided to give this picture a shot. I actually really liked this film for the most part. The performances do not make the film, but the storyline is very good and it is definitely fun to watch the film unfold. I recommend giving this film a shot. "Give me the razor." Grade: C+/B- (6.5)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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John Kaye

Director

Melanie Griffith

Lulu McAfee

Patrick Swayze

Ben Clifton

Penelope Ann Miller

Claire Clifton

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Martin Ellsworth

Richard Schiff

Jerome Ellsworth

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Nov 6, 2005

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Chuck O'Leary

Fantastica Daily

Rated: 2/5

Oct 8, 2005

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

A cautionary tale about the importance of actors putting something away for the future so they don't have to keep working on humiliating tripe well past their prime.

Rated: 0/4

Nov 26, 2001

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

This "dramedy" is neither dramatic nor comedic

Rated: 1/5

Oct 24, 2001

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Synopsis

After escaping from a San Francisco mental hospital, Lulu McAfee (Melanie Griffith) heads to Los Angeles to reunite with her long-lost love, Ben Clifton (Patrick Swayze). When she sees him, she reveals what she claims is the truth about the past: She gave birth to a son after their breakup, but put the baby up for adoption at the onset of her schizophrenia. The unstable Lulu then pressures Ben into taking a road trip with her to see their son on his 16th birthday.

Director: John Kaye
Executive Producer: Willi Bär, Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short
Screenwriter: John Kaye
Production Co: Green Moon Productions
Rating: R
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 30, 2016

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