Boulevard

1994

Crime / Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 20%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 20% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 743 743

Plot summary

A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.

Director

Penelope Buitenhuis Photo
Penelope Buitenhuis

Top cast

Michael Eric Kramer Photo
Michael Eric Kramer as Doctor
Kari Wuhrer Photo
Kari Wuhrer as Jennefer
Lou Diamond Phillips Photo
Lou Diamond Phillips as Hassan
Judith Scott Photo
Judith Scott as Sheila
720p.WEB
885.25 MB
948*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 21

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by aishasheikh 4 / 10

Okay.

Reviewed by wedgwood 6 / 10

Really very sad when you look past the dreggy style skin.

In their harsh world, the regulars on the Boulevard engage in a minute to minute struggle against each other. The story presents action and reaction, with no intellectual depth or analysis. The Boulevard boasts a selection of hookers, drag queens, junkies, pimps, cops, murderers and rapists, all mistrusting each other, all dangerously defensive. Despite this, the most violent and sexually explicit scenes are those of Jennifers flashbacks to her messy past, before she came to the Boulevard. Jennifer lands homeless after a series of traumatic events; she's just given birth, adopted her baby out, run away from her abusive partner, and given up all her money for a bus ticket to Toronto. A local working girl feels sorry for her so takes her in. Performance ranks as one of the better features of Boulevard. I've never seen Kari Wuhrer play a part so well. Lance Henriksen and Lou Diamond Phillips were damn memorable. Hahah. The quality of the film crashes when it comes to relationship development. Broad insults, verbal abuse, sex and physical violence sum up almost all character interaction. Even the budding 'love' between Jennifer and Ola seemed more like a convenient, mutually-rewarding 'arrangement'. The ugly ending only exemplified Boulevard as one of the cheaply effective 90's-classic tragedy genre. But still, quite good.
Reviewed by bkoganbing 4 / 10

Sisterhood triumphs

Lou Diamond Phillips and Rae Dawn Chong, two players known for three names, star in this Canadian production about a woman fleeing from her abusive husband and winding up on the mean streets of Toronto. But neither Lou or Rae is playing that part. Oh come now, Lou Diamond Phillips did do drag in Hollywood Homicide.Kari Wuhrer plays that part the abused woman fleeing from a real loser of a husband in Joel Bissonette. But before long after she arrives in Toronto, Kari's got reason to think about that old saying concerning the devil you know. She makes the acquaintance of prostitute Rae Dawn Chong who is a street prostitute and pretty soon she'll be required to join the stable of pimp Lou Diamond Phillips. He's far worse than the wife beating husband she fled from.The saving grace is her relationship with Chong as the two of them discover they've got more feelings for each other than the abusive men they've known.In fact other than Toronto cop Lance Henriksen the men in this film are one scurvy sampling of the species. The players all do fine in their roles, especially Phillips who has done the dark side in a few of his movies. Lou was never darker in any film however than he is in Boulevard.I'd like to say that Boulevard was a serious film about lesbianism because Chong and Wuhrer are a touching couple. But this is a movie that will be far better appreciated at Hooters than at any women's film festival.
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