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The Boys
in the Band (1970) |
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118
minutes
Rated:
R
Country: US
Studio: Fox
Cast: Kenneth Nelson, Leonard
Frey, Cliff Gorman, Laurence
Luckinbill, Frederick Combs, Robert
La Tourneaux
Director: William Friedkin
Screenwriter: Mart Crowley |
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Based on Matt Crowley's play of the
same name, this 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. 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. |
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