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List Price: $24.99
Our Price: $24.99
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Manufacturer: TLA
Starring: Patrick Bauchau, Derek Magyar, Darryl Stephens, Jonathan Trent, Matt Riedy
Directed By: Q. Allan Brocka
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: MAGYAR,DEREK
EAN: 0807839002928
Format: Anamorphic
Label: TLA
Manufacturer: TLA
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: TLA
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-08-14
Running Time: 90
Studio: TLA
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Boy Culture is the candid confession of X, a wildly successful male escort. After ten years of sex for pay, X gets romantically entangled with his two hot roommates and a reclusive elderly client, Gregory. But before Gregory will agree to sex, he tells an unsettling love story spanning fifty years and dares X to try something he hasn t felt in years: emotion.
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Summary: wow
Comment: This movie is simply amazing. I laughed the entire time. I cried. I yelled at the tv. I loved it. Not your everyday gay movie. THe story line goes beyond that. This is a movie about love, trust, guilt, giulty pleasures, and oppertunities.
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Summary: This is close to "Evian"
Comment: A magazine columnist once wrote in a movie review for "Waiting to Exhale" that when you're dying of thirst, you don't exactly need Evian. This is how I've felt about the vast majority of gay-themed movies. Most of them, to be blunt, are crap. Supply and demand dictates that, due to the relatively few writers and directors working in this genre, that most gay-themed movies are disappointing and would never be green-lit if their audience was more mainstream, i.e., straight.
"Boy Culture", despite its generic title, is a refreshing exception to this rule. Warm, touching, sexy, and smart, this movie is a good example of gay independent movie making. The voice-over of the main character may be a bit cheap, but it's quite effective in the end. The leads are all extremely watchable, attractive, and endearing. I don't know which one of them was gay or straight, but I neither did I care. Each of them inhabited their roles without resulting to trite stereotypes, or, as insulting to me, personally, the opposite -- playing "straight". The result was that I felt that each character was a real person.
While I do not think it will appeal to the majority of straight audiences, it is simply a Must-Watch for us gays. And straight viewers with an open mind and a romantic sensibility will certainly not be disappointed.
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Summary: Pleasant Surprise.
Comment: I was not expecting this... from the previews I was expecting "Boy Culture" to be a mildly entertaining, yet irrelevant little film. But from the moment I put the DVD in the DVD player I was hooked.
The film tells the story of a Man named X who is a hustler by trade, but mentally sees himself still as a virgin. One day he meets a new client, an elderly man, who makes him realize that he's been in love with his roommate for years.
But what sets the film apart from the generic TLA release it the innovating way the filmmakers approached the project. The movie is film on video and without much pizzazz, but the screenwriter's decision to have the film be a self-narrated protagonist is innovating. Getting into X's head while frustrating at times, it makes you ultimately fall in love with him, and can't help but feel the charm of this film.
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Summary: Good story, improbable
Comment: Others have described the story, my only comment would be that X turns in a good performance as a cold-hearted sex worker, afraid to be close to anymore. "Noah" from Noah's Arc plays a very different character and shows that he is a solid actor.
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Summary: Could have been?
Comment: There were so many reasons to like this movie. The main character is smolderingly sexy. He narrates it, so you obviously see his point of view. The older male in the movie is from an even older Columbo series, and he played the murderer in it. I suppose that was solely my problem when I watched it, but he did make me cringe a bit. (Old men kissing is such a damn turn off) Other than that...the movie was entertaining but I always crave more young male on male love scenes. (not old men! *ewww*) Still, that said, I wasn't disappointed.
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