Boys (1996 film)

Boys (1996 film)

Infobox Film
name = Boys


caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Stacy Cochran
producer = Paul Feldsher
Peter Frankfurt
Erica Huggins
writer = Stacy Cochran
James Salter (story)
starring = Winona Ryder
Lukas Haas
John C. Reilly
James LeGros
Skeet Ulrich
Chris Cooper
music = Stewart Copeland
cinematography = Robert Elswit
editing = Camilla Toniolo
distributor = Touchstone Pictures (USA)
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (foreign markets)
released = 10 May 1996
runtime = 86 minutes
country = USA
language = English, Spanish
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0115742

"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, USA.

Plot

John Baker Jr. (Lukas 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 whats the difference if he gets a zero attendance for being 3 minutes late or skipping the whole class so he might as well skip the class. Now close to graduating from boarding school all his life is turned upside down when he rescues a beautiful, 25 year old woman Patty Vare (Winona Ryder) with a secret. 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 were 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 is continuous flashbacks of Vare's past showing her with a famous baseball player who she meets and steals a car with, leading up to a drunken car crash and his death (which authorities are searching for Vare to question about). By the end, Vare has admitted all this to Baker and informed the authorities where the body and the car are (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

*Winona Ryder as Patty Vare
*Lukas Haas as John Baker, Jr.
*John C. Reilly as Officer Kellogg Curry
*Chris Cooper as John Baker, Sr.
*Jessica Harper as Mrs. John Baker
*James LeGros as Fenton Ray
*Skeet Ulrich as Bud Valentine
*Matt Malloy as Bartender
*Spencer Vrooman as John Murphy
*Charlie Hofheimer as John Cooke
*Bill Sage as Officer Bill Martone
*Marty McDonough as Teacher
*Wiley Wiggins as John Phillips
*Vivienne Shub as Frances
*Russell Young as John Van Slieder
*Christopher Pettiet as Jon Heinz
*Catherine Keener as Jilly

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 [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960510/REVIEWS/605100301/1023] .

Official soundtrack

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

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

External links

*imdb title|0115742


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