Showboy is enjoyable if you're comfortable with the mix of fact and fiction and don't care what's true and what's not.
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04/15/04
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Showboy (2004)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:11
Rotten:4
Average Rating:5.7/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 9, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: A laugh-out-loud mockumentary in the vein of WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, SHOWBOY tells the story of Christian Taylor, a writer for the acclaimed HBO series SIX FEET UNDER. Shortly after agreeing to be... [More]
Starring: Christian Taylor, Lindy Heymann
Director: Christian Taylor, Lindy Heymann
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Reviews for Showboy
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Top CriticThe most entertaining part of Christian Taylor’s “Showboy” is deciphering fact from fiction... and that's not a compliment.
08/27/04
Silly only begins to describe this, but along the way, bitter truths are revealed and some real laughs delivered.
08/08/04
Witty, touching, and slightly wacky.
05/25/04
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12/06/05
plays for laughs extremely well, though it's all dry as the Las Vegas air
06/13/04
This would-be satire isn't funny enough to be entertaining, nor is it clever enough to fool us.
05/05/04
To their credit, the filmmakers don't repair their hero's aching heart, but they do grant him a brief moment in the Vegas spotlight, surely all that any chorus boy (or girl) could ask.
04/29/04
a legitimately smart and appealing work
09/30/04
Slyly amusing yet poignant.
04/22/04
Top CriticMade all the more fascinating by keeping a small and twisted foot in a bizarre reality befitting the glitz and glamour of show business.
06/30/04
A no-budget vanity production that almost instantly wears out its welcome.
04/08/04
Top CriticA clever hide-and-seek game of reality versus fiction that reveals itself as not the movie you thought it was when the final credits roll.
04/15/04
Top CriticTaylor, while perhaps a little small to become a real Vegas showboy, makes for a very charismatic hero, while Joaquin Baca-Asay's cinematography captures all the glitz and slightly tawdry glamour of the Vegas strip.
04/09/04
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11/26/08
An ill-conceived, often implausible hybrid of fact and fiction.
04/06/04
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