Boys (1996 film)


Boys

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Stacy Cochran
Produced by Paul Feldsher
Peter Frankfurt
Erica Huggins
Written by Stacy Cochran
James Salter (story)
Starring Winona Ryder
Lukas Haas
John C. Reilly
James LeGros
Skeet Ulrich
Chris Cooper
Music by Stewart Copeland
Cinematography Robert Elswit
Editing by Camilla Toniolo
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures (USA)
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (foreign markets)
Release date(s) 10 May 1996
Running time 86 minutes
Country  United States
Language English, Spanish

Boys is a 1996 American film starring Winona Ryder and Lukas Haas. The film was originally titled The Girl You Want. The film earned $516,349 in the United States box office. It is based on a short story called "20 Minutes" by James Salter.

The film was shot in Baltimore, Maryland and Annapolis, Maryland.

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Plot

John Baker Jr. (Haas) is a boy bored with his upper class life and the prospect of his future running the family grocery store chain. He no longer sees the point in school, stating what's the difference if he gets a zero attendance for being three minutes late or skipping the whole class so he might as well skip the class. Now close to graduating from boarding school, his life is turned upside down when he rescues Patty Vare (Ryder). After repeated statements that she won't go see someone, he hides her in his dorm room and the two begin a romantic voyage of self-discovery. This is not without its problems, as other boys in the dorm quickly find out she is being hidden in his room, leading up to a dramatic confrontation with Baker's close friends where his 'best friend' becomes enraged and punches a wall, breaking his hand, while the two continue to argue over the reason as to why Baker has hidden her in his room.

Throughout the movie there are continuous flashbacks of Vare's past, showing her with a famous baseball player with whom she steals a car, leading up to a drunken car crash and his death (for which authorities are searching for Vare for questioning). By the end, Vare has admitted all this to Baker and informed the authorities of the location of the body and the car (as they crashed into a river). At the police station both Baker and Vare begin to say goodbye when they unexpectedly jump into an elevator to escape from Baker's controlling father (Chris Cooper), and drive off with a car he had earlier stolen from the school.

Cast

Reception

"Boys is a low-rent, dumbed-down version of Before Sunrise, with a rent-a-plot substituting for clever dialogue." —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times[1]

Official soundtrack

The soundtrack to the film was released on April 9, 1996.

  1. "She's Not There" - Cruel Sea
  2. "Alright" - Cast
  3. "Gotta Know Right Now" - Smoking Popes
  4. "Honeysimple" - Scarce
  5. "Wildwood" (Sheared Wood Mix) - Paul Weller, remixed by Portishead
  6. "Colored Water" - Orbit
  7. "Sad & Beautiful World" - Sparklehorse
  8. "Fading Fast" - Kelly Willis
  9. "Tell Her This" - Del Amitri
  10. "If I Didn't Love You" - Squeeze
  11. "Inside" - Slider
  12. "Wait For The Sun" - Supergrass
  13. "Belly Laugh" - Compulsion
  14. "Begging You" - Stone Roses
  15. "Evade Chums" - Stewart Copeland

Footnotes

  1. ^ Ebert, Roger. Boys review, Chicago Sun-Times, 10 May 1996.

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