Boys (1996)
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 22
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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 9
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 2.7/5
User Ratings: 4,517
Movie Info
Boys is a coming-of-age tale about an addled prep school student who nurses a woman back to health after an accident and becomes involved in her cryptic past. John Baker Jr. (Lukas Haas) is a tormented high school senior outcast who's weary of his upper-crust boarding school life and dreads his future as a supermarket chain manager. When he finds Patty Vare (Winona Ryder) unconscious in a field after being thrown from a horse, Baker sees this as an opportunity to break out of his humdrum
May 10, 1996 Wide
Mar 4, 2003
Cast
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Winona Ryder
Patty Vare -
Lukas Haas
John Baker Jr. -
Skeet Ulrich
Buddy Valentine -
John C. Reilly
Officer Kellogg Curry -
Bill Sage
Bill Martone -
Wiley Wiggins
John Phillips -
Chris Cooper
Mr. John Baker -
Maddie Corman
Liz Curry -
Angela Hall
Officer Julie Leroux -
Jessica Harper
Mrs. John Baker -
Catherine Keener
Jilly -
James LeGros
Fenton Ray -
Matt Malloy
Bartender -
Bob Moore
Officer Darryl Cane -
Christopher Pettiet
Jon Heinz -
Vivienne Shub
Frances -
John Fitzpatrick
Steve Hunt -
Charlie Hofheimer
John Cooke -
David Newsom
Curt -
Spencer Vrooman
John Murphy -
Rob Carlton
Tom Vare -
John Reeves
Phil Rains Esq. -
Carter McNeese
Floor Waxer -
James Gardiner
Kellogg Curry Jnr -
Cheryl Goode
Beer Girl -
Marty McDonough
Teacher -
David Paulson
Lieutenant Love -
Gregorio Rosenblum
Dr. Paz -
Miranda Syp
Ellen Vare -
Russell Young
John Van Slieder -
Andy Davis
Jonathan Marco
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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (22) | DVD (2)
As vague and unfocused as its title.
Top CriticThe actors do a nice job of investing it all with a certain conviction, and there's a fairy-tale tinge to some of the action that gives it a certain charm.
The movie's not helped at all by Ryder, who seems uncomfortable playing femme fatale to these grimy-fingered boys, as if she doesn't believe anyone could feel this adulative about her.
Writer/director Cochran is stronger on capturing the texture surrounding her characters' converging experiences than making much of it when they do get together.
A first-rate example of good actors stuck in a bad movie.
Boys is a love story, or at least that's what the film makers would like us to believe. The problem is, there isn't much emotion present.
What begins as an edgy examination of sheltered, selfish kids making stupid choices devolves into a ludicrously mannered celebration of adolescent rebellion.
Haas and Ryder let off some serious sparks, even if the screenplay doesn't
Obviously reshot and recut to the point of complete incoherence
Amazingly bland Winona Ryder vehicle.
A dreadful disappointment of epic proportions.
An extraordinarily boring date movie with a bad attitude.
Boys is a poorly written and ill conceived drama that never even tries to involve the viewer.
Twenty-five cents to the person who can explain what the point of this exercise was.
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