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"After a disastrous date with another overachiever type, [Phoebe] finds herself gradually attracted to the mild, easygoing boy next door who is always mowing the lawn. Unfortunately, he's only 14. It's with this thoroughly unsuitable romance, beautifully understated by young Adrien Dixon as Frazer, that Phoebe gets her comeuppance and learns her life lesson. And it's with this development, the conversion of Phoebe into a human being, that the stylized, surreal charms of [Andrea] Dorfman's movie seem to falter and lose their way, en route from overturning romantic comedy to being one. Love That Boy is maybe a little self-consciously quirky, but it gives up quirkiness too soon, in favour of moulding the narrative into an arc."
-- Liz Nicholls

Source:
Nicholls, Liz. "Stylized, surreal charms of Love That Boy don't go all the way: Fey quirkiness gives in, to film's narrative needs." Review of Love That Boy. Edmonton Journal, January 23, 2004.