Showboy
2002, Comedy/Gay & lesbian, 1h 30m
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Christian
Lindy
Marilyn
Joe
Erich
Jason
Critic Reviews for Showboy
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (4)
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This would-be satire isn't funny enough to be entertaining, nor is it clever enough to fool us.
May 5, 2004 -
Slyly amusing yet poignant.
April 22, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review… -
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.
April 15, 2004 | Rating: B- | Full Review… -
A 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.
April 15, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
A no-budget vanity production that almost instantly wears out its welcome.
April 8, 2004 | Rating: 0/4 -
An ill-conceived, often implausible hybrid of fact and fiction.
April 6, 2004 | Full Review…
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This would-be satire isn't funny enough to be entertaining, nor is it clever enough to fool us.
May 5, 2004 -
Slyly amusing yet poignant.
April 22, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review… -
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.
April 15, 2004 | Rating: B- | Full Review… -
A 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.
April 15, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
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December 6, 2005 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
a legitimately smart and appealing work
September 30, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/5
Audience Reviews for Showboy
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Jul 14, 2013Witty, touching, uncomfortable at times, and always funny. This is a clever and unique story about a person too proud to admit failure and the struggles we all face when life hands us lemons. A great independent film. Certainly worth seeing.Christian C Super Reviewer
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Apr 03, 2007A young British documentarian, Lindy Heymann, is given the assignment of finding a successful young British subject living in the US and making a career in show-business. She chooses as her subject Christian Taylor, a writer on the HBO series Six Feet Under. Just as she's about to film her final interview with him, she accidentally overhears him get fired by the shows creator, Alan Ball. Christian flees to Las Vegas, and Lindy follows. When she catches up with him, Christian, who does not realise she knows he was fired, claims he is doing research for a new script he is writing - an action thriller set in Vegas. <p>What follows is a brilliantly clever mockumentary, as Lindy pursues Christian (at first reluctantly) as he tries out for auditions as a dancer, in what he claims is part of his research for his script. The boundaries of truth and fiction blur as Christian soon becomes obsessed with the audition process and his research becomes ever more "method". <p>This is a very touching film. Christian Taylor (who really was a writer on Six Feet Under - though everything else is fictitious) is a brilliant presence and seems to have a natural talent; I frequently forgot that this was a mockumentary and not a documentary. The film raises questions about deception, ambition, and identity. It's also quietly heartbreaking - a scene where Christian discloses his awful feeling of loneliness, and another where he has an emotional meltdown in a dance class, are powerful, and the film is presented very realistically and without winking to the audience. <p>A nice surprise to a film I've put off watching for a long time. And I've just read it won Directorial Debut at the British Independent Awards..Daniel P Super Reviewer
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