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The Gay Liberation Movement was still in its embryonic stages, the Stonewall riots were a year away, and homosexuality was rarely treated as anything more than a joke in popular culture (if it was acknowledged at all) when Mart Crowley's play The Boys in the Band opened off-Broadway in the spring of 1968. The Boys in the Band concerned a handful of gay men who gathered for a birthday party on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where the celebration turns sour after alcohol loosens the tongues of some of the guests and they share opinions they had previously kept hidden. While some critics felt some of the characters reflected negative stereotypical views of homosexuals, many others praised it for dealing openly and honestly with the gay community in a way that was unprecedented in mainstream... Less

The Gay Liberation Movement was still in its embryonic stages, the Stonewall riots were a year away, and homosexuality was rarely treated as anything more than a joke in popular culture (if it was acknowledged at all) when Mart Crowley's play The Boys in the Band opened off-Broadway in the spring of 1968. The Boys in the Band concerned a handful of gay men who gathered for a birthday party on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where the celebration turns sour after alcohol loosens the tongues of some of the guests and they share opinions they had previously kept hidden. While some critics felt some of the characters reflected negative stereotypical views of homosexuals, many others praised it for dealing openly and honestly with the gay community in a way that was unprecedented in mainstream... Less

The Boys From Syracuse (1940) Allan Jones, Martha RayeDirector: Charles VidorCo-stars: Irene Hervey, Joe Penner, Alan Mowbray73 minutes, Black and WhiteDVD- R: Region ALLIt was adapted from a Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott, and it manages to remain entertaining throughout its surprisingly brief 74-minute running time. Like its theatrical predecessor, the film was inspired by Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors (After a play by William Shakespeare long, long after reads the opening title). In ancient Ephesus, young tyrant Antipholus (Allan Jones) sentences elderly merchant Aegeon (Samuel S. Hinds) to death unless the latter can come up with a handsome ransom. What Antipholus doesn't know is that Aegeon is his own father; he also doesn't know that he has a... Less

Brown is the color of the uniforms worn by the residents of a British borstal boy's reformatory. Jack Warner plays the governor warden of the institution struggling to maintain an even keel with his tempestuous charges. The film aims for a veneer of reality by using an optical camera device to blend actual backgrounds with studio sets a special effect that works about half the time. THE BOYS IN BROWN was based on a British stage play by Reginald Beckwith. Perhaps it was more effective on stage where the advanced ages of the boys were not quite so detectable.

Director Rouben Mamoulian often claimed that he'd been inspired to make Golden Boy after reading a newspaper clipping about a recently deceased boxer. While Mamoulian may have genuinely believed that he was the true auteur of Golden Boy, he probably wouldn't have made the picture at all had not Clifford Odets started the ball rolling by writing the property for the stage in 1936. In his first starring role, William Holden plays Joe Bonaparte, a promising young boxer. While boxing promoter Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou) and Menjou's mistress Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck) urge Joe to pursue a ring career, Joe's Italian father (played with a surfeit of Chico Marx by 27-year-old Lee J. Cobb) wants his boy to become a famous violinist. Moody tells Lorna to romance the boy to get him into the ring... Less

An unruly collection of clever but crass Thatcher-era English high-school students seek to earn the scores needed to enroll in Oxford and Cambridge in director Nicholas Hytner and screenwriter Alan Bennett's screen adaptation of Bennett's Tony-winning play. The History Boys focuses on a group of eight students, all of them deemed by their overeager headmaster (Clive Merrison) to be the best and the brightest. Though they've been coddled by their humanities- loving instructor, Hector (Richard Griffiths), and their acerbic history teacher, Mrs. Lintott (Frances de la Tour), the boys are deemed in need of additional tutoring; thus, the brash, young Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore) is recruited to challenge them further. The subtle power games the boys used to their advantage with their... Less

Boy On A Dolphin (1957) Alan Ladd, Sophia LorenDirector: Jean NegulescoCo- stars: Clifton Webb, Alex Minotis111 minutes, ColorDVD-R: Region ALLA lavish and lush adventure film, BOY ON A DOLPHIN could easily be dismissed as a variation of THE MALTESE FALCON shot under water, but for the considerable talents of its principal players, chiefly the resolute Ladd, the snide and sophisticated Webb, and the earthy and generously endowed Loren, whose animalistic sex appeal wowed male viewers around the world in this, her first American film. While swimming off the coast of the Greek island Hydra, sponge diver Loren discovers a sunken ship in the deep, an ancient Greek galley which boasts treasure, including an exquisite statue of a boy on a dolphin. So awe-inspiring is this underwater marvel,... Less

Jerry Lewis, plays a third-rate USO magician named Gilbert Woolley, working the Far East circuit with his pet rabbit Harry. Nearly fired for accidentally humiliating haughty movie star Marie McDonald, Gilbert's career is salvaged by kindly Japanese aristocrat Sessue Hayakawa; it seems that Gilbert is the only person who is able to make Sessue's lonely, orphaned nephew Robert Hirano laugh. An international incident nearly develops when hero-worshipping Hirano tries to follow Gilbert back to the US, whereupon the poor prestidigitator is accused of being a kidnaper. Like most of the Jerry Lewis/Frank Tashlin collaborations, The Geisha Boy is highlighted by several eye-popping sight-gag sequences. The best bits include a ballpark scene featuring several members of the 1958 Los Angeles Dodgers... Less

This emotion-filled story stars Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, and Drew Barrymore as three women from different walks of life who find comfort in each other through tragedy. Parker plays Robin, an HIV-positive real estate executive who meets Jane (Goldberg), a lesbian lounge singer on her way to the West Coast who needs a driver. Robin volunteers for the job, and along the way, they stop in Pittsburgh to visit her friend Holly (Barrymore), who is pregnant and abused by her boyfriend. In an attempt to save Holly, all three decide to head West together to begin a new life. But they get only as far as Arizona before Robin falls ill and the three are forced to learn to rely on one another for growth and emotional sustenance. Jane, though concerned about Robin's condition, also finds... Less

FRIENDS star David Schwimmer takes a rare turn in the director's chair for this British comedy, written by its principal actor, Simon Pegg (SHAUN OF THE DEAD), and THE STATE favorite Michael Ian Black. Pegg plays Dennis, a likeable loser who got cold feet on his wedding day and ran out on his bride-to-be, Libby (Thandie Newton). The action in RUN, FAT BOY, RUN takes place five years after this event. In the preceding years, Dennis has landed a job as a lowly security guard and Libby has given birth to a son, Jake (Matthew Fenton), who was conceived with Dennis before their break-up. Libby has also hooked up with a new man, the slimy but successful American businessman Whit (Hank Azaria). Dennis, who is still hung up on Libby, decides he must compete against Whit in the forthcoming London... Less

Athol Fugard's award-winning play about institutionalized racism during the Apartheid-era comes to the big screen under the direction of Emmy Award-winner Lonnie Price, who previously played the lead role of Hally in the original Broadway production. Growing up, Hally (Freddie Highmore) forged a lifetime's worth of fond memories alongside Sam and Willie, his family's two black servants. But years later, as a teenager, Hally learns that his alcoholic, invalid father will soon be returning home from the hospital, and impulsively lashes out at Sam and Willie. Meanwhile, the repercussions of Hally's rage prove devastating for everyone involved. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Director Neil Jordan expertly blends fantasy and reality in the saga of Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens), an energetic and imaginative boy whose bleak existence in a small 1960s Ireland town eventually drives him to drastic measures. With his friend Joe (Alan Boyle), Francie escapes into a world of comic books, television, and science fiction films to cope with his mentally ill mom (Aisling O'Sullivan) and alcoholic father (Stephen Rea, who also plays the adult Francie). Tragic circumstances mount, and the chasm between Francie's imaginary life and the drab reality of rural Ireland grows too great, leading to bloody consequences. Jordan scripted THE BUTCHER BOY along with the author of the novel, Patrick McCabe, and the result is an unusual and rewarding blend of pitch-black comedy and wry... Less

In a 1950s-era alternate universe where domesticated zombies play a functional role in society by delivering the milk, carrying the mail, and even helping out with household chores, one boy is about to find out just how big of a personal responsibility pet ownership truly is. When the Earth passed through a cloud of space dust and the dead arose from their graves to devour the flesh of the living, it first seemed that all hope for humanity was lost. Society's rapid slide into chaos, however, was soon halted when scientists at a company called ZomCom created a special collar that turned the rampaging animated corpses docile. Now, thanks to ZomCom, everything is under control -- or is it? Timmy Robinson (K'Sun Ray) isn't quite convinced. Quiet and withdrawn, the skeptical young boy spends... Less

Mark Dacascos plays Jesse, who has just been freed after a stretch in prison. He reluctantly helps out his pal Larry (Jaimz Woolvett) with a drug deal; when things go badly, Jesse has to make a run to Detroit, where a straight job awaits him, before the dealers find out where he is. Boogie Boy also stars Frederic Forrest, Emily Lloyd, Traci Lords and Joan Jett. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

The true story of John Lennon's troubled childhood and difficult relationship with his family is brought to the screen in this period drama. Young John (Alex Ambrose) is a bright but sharp-tongued boy living in the coastal town of Liverpool during the 1950s with his aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas) and uncle George (David Threlfall). John's father walked out on the family when he was four years old, and the boy was given to Mimi to raise, even though his mother, Julia (Anne-Marie Duff), was still alive. While Mimi's straight-laced nature runs counter to John's more reckless personality, they clearly love one another and the household is thrown into chaos when George dies suddenly. At the funeral, teenage John (now played by Aaron Johnson) sees Julia, and learns to his surprise that she... Less

In Society (1944) Abbott & Costello, Marion HuttonDirector: J ean YarbroughCo- stars: Kirby Grant, Margaret Irving, Arthur Treacher75 minutes, Black and WhiteDVD- R: Region ALLFor their first film in a year, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello played it safe with a medley of old burlesque routines and slapstick setpieces -- and never mind a coherent plot. The boys play Eddie and Albert, a pair of plumbers hired to fix the pipes of a fancy society mansion. While a masquerade party takes place on the first floor, our heroes wreak havoc in the bathroom on the second floor. The angry owners (Thurston Hall, Netta Packer) shoot off a letter of complaint to the plumbers which gets mixed up with an invitation for a fancy weekend party. Thus it is that Eddie and Albert, accompanied by their female... Less

Cowritten by director Sidney J. Furie, The Boys in Company C charts the fortunes of five young Marine recruits. Led by Stan Shaw, the quintet is shipped off to Vietnam. The film makes no bones about the demoralizing effect the war has on its participants, nor the pigheadedness of the military higher-ups who think only in terms of body counts and photo ops. Of the five recruits, the most memorable are Michael Lembeck as Vinnie Fazio, the resident wiseguy (the same type of role played by Lembeck's dad Harvey in 1950s war films) and Andrew Stevens as Billy Ray Pike, a straight-arrow type who succumbs to the lure of drugs; the others are played by Craig Wasson, James Canning, and Scott Hylands. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Two people with little in common become a family of sorts in this emotional drama from filmmaker Avie Luthra. Lucky Sihle Dlamini is a ten-year-old South African boy whose nickname is a grim irony -- his mother has died his dad is missing and he's been diagnosed with AIDS. While Lucky has an uncle in Durban Jabulani James Ngcob isn't especially interested in looking after the boy and has already spent the money earmarked for Lucky's education on himself. Lucky has a cassette that his mother recorded for him shortly before she died but he doesn't have a machine to play it; one of his uncle's neighbors an elderly woman named Padma Jayashree Basavaraj has a tape player but when he tries to sneak into her house to use it she responds by chasing him out with a broom and hurling racial epithets... Less

An aging group of European refugees that was recruited to aid the Allied cause and fight the Nazis discuss their experiences both on and off the battlefield in director Christian Bauer's affectionate tribute to the unsung heroes of World War II. The year was 1941, and Europeans desperate to escape the horrors of fascism began flooding into the U.S. in unprecedented numbers. Though at first considered security risks by a skeptical U.S. government, a number of these newly arrived émigrés were eventually recruited by the military to help Allied forces loosen Hitler's tyrannical grip in Europe. Trained in everything from interrogation to assassination, these soldiers had the language skills and mentality needed to gain an advantage over the relentless Nazi death machine. Though they would... Less

Footloose is a DVD of a drama about a big city boy and a small town girl. Footloose begins when Ren MacCormack, played by Kenny Wormald, moves from Boston to a small southern town in Tennessee. The move is quite a change for Ren, but the drama really starts to unfold when he discovers that the city elders have declared music evil and have placed a ban on dancing due to the death of five teenagers who were killed in an accident after a night of dancing. Ren soon becomes attracted to Ariel, the daughter of the local minister who has led the campaign in the town to ban dancing. Ren finds that Ariel likes dancing also and the two form a relationship around their forbidden love of dancing. Ren and Ariel eventually lead the young people of the town into a fun filled rebellion against authority... Less

A story so nice they did it…thrice! The Gershwin musical Girl Crazy finds yet another financially strapped out-West ranch in need of youthful showbiz enthusiasm in this star-studded, ’60s-tinged movie redo. Connie Francis and Harve Presnell play the young love- and songbirds eager to turn the spread into a moneymaking dude ranch. There’s plenty of music making, too, with original Gershwin songs plus an eclectic mix of specialty numbers by Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs and, in a co-starring appearance that would be followed by two headlining movies, Herman’s Hermits. A lineup like this can only happen in the movies – and When the Boys Meet the Girls. 1965/color/97 min/NR/widescreen .

Deep End (1970) Jane Asher, John Moulder- BrownDirector: Je rzy SkolimowskiCo- stars: Karl Michael Vogler, Christopher Sandford, Diana Dors88 minutes, EastmancolorDVD- R: Region ALLThis quirky black sex comedy is the story of a boy's bizarre and unsentimental education. Moulder-Brown plays Mike, a handsome 15-year-old whose first job has him working in the men's section at a seedy bathhouse in a decidedly unswinging London. He meets a fellow employee, sexy 23-year-old redhead Susan (Asher), who teaches him the ropes and gets him to agree to refer his male clients to her in return for her female clients so that they can both earn better tips. He soon learns to exploit his looks by flirting with the women and encouraging them to fantasize about him. Mike develops an enormous crush on Susan... Less