Boy Culture (2006)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 8
Eloquent one-liners and quick pacing make Boy Culture sharper than the typical gay indie flick.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 3
Eloquent one-liners and quick pacing make Boy Culture sharper than the typical gay indie flick.
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A male prostitute who has dismissed the need for love in his life learns a lesson about affection from one of his customers in this independent comedy drama from filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka. X (Derek Magyar) is a gay hustler whose enigmatic name reflects his emotional distance from the world around him; he doesn't much believe in love, and isn't interested in sex unless he's being paid for it. X has a dozen regular customers he calls his "disciples," and shares his home with two roommates --
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Patrick Bauchau
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Darryl Stephens
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Jonathan Trent
Joey -
Peyton Hinson
Jill -
Kyle Santler
Scooter -
William Hall Jr.
Oren -
Matt Riedy
Frank -
Jesse Archer
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Emily Brooke Hands
Lucy -
George Jonson
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Clifford Harrington
Renaldo -
Molly Manago
Cheyenne -
Kibibi Monie
Phyllis -
Laprell Nelson
Mathew -
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All Critics (33) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (8) | DVD (4)
Boy Culture is an undemanding but sufficiently engaging serving of smut and sentiment. As such, it reclaims territory that queer cinema has largely ceded to TV shows like Queer as Folk, The L Word and Six Feet Under.
Top CriticDespite cliches, film does click.
Benefits from some assured helming by Q. Allan Brocka and strong performances.
You know something's amiss in a movie when an omniscient narrator blathers the entire way through it.
Brocka's direction keeps things moving, and the performances he draws from Magyar, Stephens and indie-film veteran Bauchau are always up to speed.
A smarter-than-average relationship drama set in Seattle's gay scene, Boy Culture boasts a winning sense of self-awareness.
A refreshingly realistic, homoerotic adventure featuring recognizable gay characters actually acting gay, not behaving in some sanitized fashion intended to appeal to straight audiences. The gay version of Jungle Fever!
The gay version of Jungle Fever!
Audiences outside gay cinema will, frankly, probably find it too callow to emotionally invest in. However, for those who do see it, they will likely be surprised, and entertained, by its arch insights and near-camp bearing.
Seattle locales, some spry lines and tiny soundings of depth still leave us in the conceptual grip of 'love' as a system of endless bartering and vanity, with impulsive copulation treated as consecration. Oh, boy.
BOY CULTURE is a well-made, engrossing and well acted comedy-drama. [The main character] X can easily reside alongside Jon Voight's Joe Buck in MIDNIGHT COWBOY as one of the screen's more memorable hustlers.
These self-involved studs manage to make ready, anonymous sex look rather dull.
A drab, contrived drama in which men have sex and then complain about it to us.
Brocka leaps into the small circle of leading queer filmmakers of our time, sculpting an unpredictable romance that is complex, sophisticated and thoughtful.
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