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Movie Info

Alienated teens Corey and Jonah begrudgingly find themselves walking home together on Halloween 1997, their last night of high school. They embark on a journey through their memories, dreams and fears as they lay the ghosts of their past to rest.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Nicholas Verso
Producer:

John Molloy
Writer:

Nicholas Verso
Release Date (Streaming):

Aug 13, 2017
Runtime:

1h 52m

Cast & Crew

Toby Wallace
Corey

Gulliver McGrath
Jonah

Mitzi Ruhlmann
Romany

Justin Holborow
Jango

Henry Reimer Meaney
Tweedledee Gromit

Jayden Lugg
Tweedledum Gromit

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Critic Reviews for Boys in the Trees

All Critics (20) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (5)

... its hallucinatory imagery anchored by realistically profane teen dialogue and a tragic LGTBQ subtext.

December 14, 2017 | Full Review…

Katie Rife
AV Club
Adolescence is not endlessly fascinating.

October 21, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
This is a film that grows on me the more I think about it.

October 21, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Stephen Romei
The Australian
The young cast give it a good crack but cannot overpower the weight of contrivance.

October 19, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Luke Buckmaster
Guardian
Feels forced nearly every step of the way, always spelling out literally what it yearns to express symbolically.

August 3, 2020 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…

Tom Kiesecoms
ScreenAnarchy
A whimsical coming-of-age tale, mixed with a bit of the macabre, Boys in the Trees is a cautionary tale of adolescence masked by ghost stories.

July 11, 2020 | Full Review…

Jordy Sirkin
Jordy Reviews It
A movie that just feels shy and not willing to make the viewer comprehend its difficult subject and ideal premise. [Full review in Spanish].

February 18, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Federico Furzan
Cinelipsis
I haven't even addressed the visuals, which do rank up there with the finest of Jackson and Del Toro's work.

February 13, 2019 | Full Review…

Michael McNeely
The Hindu Business Line
Boys in the Trees is a wonderful love letter to Halloween that explores friendship, growing up, and death. Magnificent to look at and devastating, it is a masterpiece.

October 29, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Michelle Swope
HorrorNews.net
It feels like an urban legend told at a slumber party - earnest and creepy with a plot twist you see coming - but first-time writer/director Nicholas Verso's delight is palpable.

November 20, 2017 | Full Review…

Jason Di Rosso
The Final Cut
A wonderful feature debut from a filmmaker who is sure to be somebody to watch very closely.

May 3, 2017 | Full Review…

Robert Saucedo
Birth.Movies.Death.
"Boys in the Trees" is ambitious, inventive and has its eyes set on being an Australian answer to Rian Johnson's "Brick" or Greg Araki's "Mysterious Skin."

January 29, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Blake Howard
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