Les Garçons de la Bande

Original title: The Boys in the Band

1970
16
2h

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

6.2K

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Dark Comedy Drama

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

6.2K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 4 nominations total

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Trivia
Stars all of the same actors from the original play. Producer/author Mart Crowley insisted that the entire original cast of the off-Broadway production be used in the film.

Goofs
The telephone in the living room is a 1A2 model for multiple lines with a hold function. Michael has at least 2 lines as noted in the action. The line cord to the phone is a standard cord for single-line phones. The 1A2 requires a larger line cord with more pairs of wires to operate both lines, lights on the phone and the hold function.

Quotes
Michael: You're stoned and you're late. You were supposed to arrive at this location at eight thirty dash nine o'clock.
Harold: What I am, Michael, is a 32 year-old, ugly, pock marked Jew fairy, and if it takes me a little while to pull myself together, and if I smoke a little grass before I get up the nerve to show my face to the world, it's nobody's god-damned business but my own. And how are you this evening?

Alternate versions
TV prints are 11 minutes shorter than the theatrical release and are redubbed and re-edited to remove all objectionable dialogue.

Connections
Featured in Sneak Previews: Changing Attitude Toward Homosexuality in Movies (1982)

Soundtracks
Anything Goes
Written by Cole Porter (uncredited)
Performed by Harpers Bizarre

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Featured review

I've always loved this movie

Yes, I know, it perpetuates loathsome stereotypes. But it's also a period piece, and the final legacy of a number of talented actors lost to the AIDS epidemic -- yes, I know they made other movies, but the gay community isn't going to remember Leonard Frey primarily as Motel Kamzoil. They're going to remember him as the "pockmarked Jew fairy" with the pot garnished salads served to dear Ma-Ma. LOL

I was only three years old in 1968 when the original play came out, and I didn't see this movie for myself until the late 1980s. But it still records for me an era and a mood that should not be forgotten, if only because it reminds us of how very far we've come. People should not be shielded from the realities of the past in order to sugarcoat history.

RIP Robert LaTourneaux; Leonard Frey; Kenneth Nelson; Keith Prentice; and Frederick Combs.