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Boys Life: Three Stories of Love, Lust, and Liberation

  • 1994
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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Boys Life: Three Stories of Love, Lust, and Liberation (1994)
Drama

Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard... Read allEach of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the summer, he realizes and embraces that he's gay.... Read allEach of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the summer, he realizes and embraces that he's gay. In "A Friend of Dorothy," Winston arrives from upstate for his freshman year at NYU. He h... Read all

  • Directors
    • Robert Lee King
    • Raoul O'Connell
    • Brian Sloan
  • Stars
    • James Andrews
    • Mary Beth Aylesworth
    • Mike Barbour
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    544
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Robert Lee King
      • Raoul O'Connell
      • Brian Sloan
    • Stars
      • James Andrews
      • Mary Beth Aylesworth
      • Mike Barbour
    • 8User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    James Andrews
    • Waiter (segment "Pool Days")
    • (archive footage)
    Mary Beth Aylesworth
    • Kissing Couple (segment "Pool Days")
    • (archive footage)
    Mike Barbour
    • Weightlifter (segment "Pool Days")
    • (archive footage)
    Steve Bilich
    Steve Bilich
    • Shower Guy (segment "Pool Days")
    • (archive footage)
    Wendy Brokaw
    • Nadia (segment "The Disco Years")
    • (archive footage)
    Bojesse Christopher
    Bojesse Christopher
    • Bryan (segment "The Disco Years")
    • (archive footage)
    Dennis Christopher
    Dennis Christopher
    • Mr. Reese (segment "The Disco Years")
    • (archive footage)
    Adrian Davey
    • Steamroom Guy (segment "Pool Days")
    • (archive footage)
    Kimberly Flynn
    • Vicky (segment "Pool Days")
    • (archive footage)
    Richard Foster
    • Dad (segment "Pool Days")
    • (archive footage)
    Will Gorgess
    • Steamroom Guy (segment "Pool Days")
    • (archive footage)
    Terry Herrington
    • Weightlifter (segment "Pool Days")
    • (archive footage)
    Nick Kokotakis
    Nick Kokotakis
    • Russell Williams
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Nick Poletti)
    Russell Scott Lewis
    • Matt Wesson (segment "The Disco Years")
    • (archive footage)
    Matt Nolan
    Matt Nolan
    • Tom Peters (segment "The Disco Years")
    • (archive footage)
    Raoul O'Connell
    • Winston (segment "A Friend of Dorothy")
    • (archive footage)
    Dominique Perez
    • Weightlifter (segment "Pool Days")
    • (archive footage)
    Steve Rally
    Steve Rally
    • Dance Instructor (segment "The Disco Years")
    • (archive footage)
    • Directors
      • Robert Lee King
      • Raoul O'Connell
      • Brian Sloan
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    7harry-76

    Three Respectable Short Films

    This trio of 30-minute short films on gay-related themes are all quite respectably executed. Each coming-of-age story is played out with pleasant charm and naturalness. This film deserves to be widely distributed and easily obtainable. However, it isn't. I had to order my video copy; none of the local video stores or even the libraries had it in stock.
    Phillip-7

    Excellent coming of age film

    I did not expect much from this since I saw Boys Life 2 first (which is very inferior to this one). I was pleasantly surprised however. This is an excellent series of short films (3 all together) that all deal with the coming out experiences of high school/college age young men. All three are well written and produced and the acting is excellent. Raoul O'Connell is completely gorgeous and charming in "A Friend of Dorothy", the second short, but all three actors are memorable.
    1Bishonen

    Dull, Predictable, a Waste of Time

    It's nice that these three young directors have produced films with good productions values and decent acting. There's some good work here.

    Unfortunately they suffer from what afflicts much of modern gay cinema; recycled plots, too familiar devices (i have seen the "pool" setting way too many times in gay male films) and hackneyed scripts. Most egregious of all is "Dorothy" whose preposterous premise is that a cute young guy will have trouble getting laid in NYC due to a shortage of identifiable availabe gay guys in his vicinity.

    In terms of cinema these shorts play like tacky little gay afterschool specials. Not a lot of imagination in their writing or execution; basically they follow a point-and-shoot, shot/reaction shot/master shot convention which becomes painfully dull after five or so minutes. There's hope for queer cinema in the works of Todd Haynes, Sadie Benning and the late, great Marlon Riggs...but not here. These films are incredibly middlebrow, singularly whitebread and their values basically pander to a gay bourgeois sensibility. Which is probably why they play so well at gay film festivals.
    9Gino-11

    Good Beginnings

    These three directors are off to Good Beginnings. The three stories are remarkably well-done for independent productions and capture those traumatic feelings of "coming out" when you aren't really sure it's a good idea. I laughed at those veiled glances around the dressing room in "Pool Days"; I smiled at the notion that fans of Bette Midler, Judy Garland, and Barbra Streisand are assumed to be gay in "A Friend of Dorothy"(ie. browsing through the CD music racks); and I cringed over the "jock" in "The Disco Years" whose memory of sweet sex was now "blurred" by liquor. It all seemed so real. I look forward to more offerings from this trio of directors.
    8green2u

    Ah, the blossoming of desire!

    The trio are a pleasant, nostalgic journey to that first hint of desire--when it was still about simple exploration of the unknown--before we "grew up" and added those complexities of HIV status, emotional baggage and gotta-run-my-pager-just-went-off into the emotional mix.

    The angst portrayed is pure adolescent angst, but it rings true in all three stories. Their sweetness and positivity make you feel good that you are gay. And those kinds of films are few and far between.

    Good news! Both Boys Life and Boys Life 2 are now readily available on DVD as of September 1999.

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    • Release date
      • September 30, 1994 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Meninos e Amores
    • Production company
      • Strand Releasing
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $625,423
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $12,588
      • Oct 2, 1994
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 31m(91 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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