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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 3, 2008
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Reuben Greene, Robert La Tourneaux, Laurence Luckinbill, Keith Prentice, Peter White & Frederick Combs | |
Performer: | Maud Adams | |
Directed by | William Friedkin | |
Edited by | Jerry Greenberg & Carl Lerner | |
Screenwriting by | Mart Crowley | |
Produced by | Mart Crowley | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur J. Ornitz |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
lively, edgy, groundbreaking
Shadows on the Wall
One leaves it exhausted, as one does all rubberneck excursions, but neither emotionally elevated nor intellectually enlightened.
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LIFE
Rating: 3/4 --
The sizzle of the bon mot%u2013tossing ensemble, intact from the stage original, is bracing and fuels the film's momentum.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Groundbreaking, yet entertaining too.
New Times
The original queer tragicomedy
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CinePassion
A powerful, funny, bitter and hopeful drama about love and friendship.
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Backseat Mafia
Rating: 3/5 --
a breakthrough film in the gay film genre; but dated by today's standards
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Product Description:
Based on Matt Crowley's play of the same name, THE BOYS IN THE BAND is a hilarious farce that focuses on the personal mores and identity politics of a group of gay friends at a private birthday party in Manhattan. Released one year after Federico Fellini's SATYRICON, BOYS reflects director William Friedkin's youthful admiration of the personal European films many American directors were emulating at the time. Michael (Kenneth Nelson) is throwing a birthday party for his scathingly self-deprecating friend Harold (Leonard Frey), and the exclusive circle of friends invited are all gay men, all of whom suffer some form of the identity crises imposed by an intolerant society that requires complicit suppression. The release from social preoccupations behind closed doors results in an alcohol-induced claustrophobia, and when an unexpected visit from Michael's straight college friend takes everyone by surprise, unspoken personal revelations come boiling to the surface. With the sort of lively and rabid repartee of an Oscar Wilde play combined with the dark, psychological stalking of Edward Albee/Mike Nichols WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF', THE BOYS IN THE BAND is Friedkin's most accomplished, and final, European-influenced, auteurist effort before he turned to genre and self-described commercial filmmaking.
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