Jane Wants A Boyfriend
An overprotective woman (Eliza Dushku) becomes worried when her philandering friend (Gabriel Ebert) falls for her autistic sister (Louisa Krause). But as her sister goes on some very eye-opening first dates, she realizes that, at the end of the day, we all deserve to be loved.
20 May 1986, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
30 December 1980, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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March 24, 2016
"Jane's" affecting emotional core and cathartic conclusion carry the day.
March 28, 2016
Autism and the challenges it presents for its romantically inclined leading lady are the basis for this well-intentioned but very spotty film.
March 25, 2016
[D]rama about a young woman with Asperger's looking for love... is stilted, forced, phony, emotionally implausible, and... rather paternalistic and patronizing.
March 25, 2016
Sweetly-intentioned though somewhat awkwardly structured ...
March 24, 2016
Polished and often clever, William C. Sullivan's "Jane Wants a Boyfriend" examines autism in the context of sisterly ties and intimate relationships.
March 22, 2016
For the most part ... Jane Wants a Boyfriend keeps the proceedings a bit too cute and would benefit from giving the protagonist more subjectivity.
March 24, 2016
"Jane Wants a Boyfriend" loses momentum careening between Dushku's Bianca and Krause's Jane - the latter of whom is far more interesting.
